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||The first paper in the field by the first experimental psychologist, a U.S. version of a Marey/Jevons type of polymath.|| PEIRCE, Charles Sanders. "Note on the Sensation of Color" in The American Journal of Science and Arts, Third Series, Vol. XIII, Nos. 73-78, January to June, 1877, pp. 247-251 offered in the entire volume for the half year of 488pp. Offered with the ORIGINAL WRAPPERS for each of the six monthly issues, and so very scarce thus. The volume was rebound in a very stout and workable black cloth that is in excellent condition; the text is crisp, though there are some signs of pressure deformation. That said, the volume looks and sounds near-Fine. __+__ "Charles Sanders Peirce was acknowledged by William James as the founder of pragmatism; however, while James appreciation for psychology is well taken into account in his philosophy, the role that psychological inquiry played in Peirce s thought remains largely unexplored. Few excellent studies indicate Peirce as the first American experimental psychologist (Cadwallader 1974, 1975; Fisch 1986) and as the first to perform a truly modern experiment in psycho-physics (Hacking 1988). Nonetheless, Peirce s commitment to psycho-physics fails to be fully integrated with the broader project of his philosophy. This integration is crucial to gain a better understanding of the complexity of Peirce s system of thought and of his position in the psychologistic-antipsychologistic divide. On the logical side, making Peirce s position on psychology explicit leads to investigating his material logic; on the psychological side, Peirce s scientific approach to psychology has its theoretical foundation in Kant and further marks the distinction between Peirce s pragmatism and James . __+__ "In the field of psychology, Cadwallader (1974, 1975) gently reclaimed Peirce as the first American experimental psychologist, a claim later confirmed by Fisch. Peirce s first published psychology paper is his 1877 paper Note on the Sensation of Color [the paper offered here] and, as the editors of the Writings report, Peirce was carrying on founded psychological research as early as 1875. The Note on color had a certain diffusion, since it was published both in the U.S. and in the UK. Peirce moreover was acquainted with experimental psychology through the work of Wundt and Fechner at least since 1869."--Claudia Cristalli, "Experimental Psychology and the Practice of Logic", Charles S. Peirce and the Charge of Psychologism, 1869-1885__+__ Also, a note on this journal: "The American Journal of Science and Arts, another general science journal, differed from both the Transactions and the Memoirs, since it was not affiliated with any learned society. Benjamin Silliman had started this journal in 1819 with hopes that his publication would be a national undertaking with its leading object …to advance the interests of the rising empire, by exciting and concentrating original American effort, both in the sciences, and in the arts . To excite and focus American energy, Silliman furthermore aimed to include excerpts from foreign journals to provide updates of current scientific developments. Silliman's journal, like both the Transactions and the Memoirs, emphasized patriotic motivations for American scientific work and concentrated on the practical utility of science. It did, however, surpass the other two by both its breadth of geographic distribution and its regularity of publication."--Deborah Kent, "The Mathematical Miscellany and The Cambridge Miscellany of Mathematics: Closely connected attempts to introduce research-level mathematics in America, 1836 1843", Historia Mathematica, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 102-122.
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