Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism - Hardcover

Forster, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521118999 ISBN 13: 9780521118996

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work.

About this title

Book Description:

Charles Peirce was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought, analysing his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and showing its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics.

About the Author:

Paul Forster is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He has published numerous papers and essays and is the co-editor of The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521118999
• ISBN 13: 9780521118996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272