The Author

Charles Sanders Peirce, American scientist and philosopher, is noted for his work on the logic of relations and on pragmatism as a method of research. The son of the most respected American mathematician of the time was born in 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard College in 1859, he entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, from which, in 1863, he graduated summa cum laude in chemistry. He entered the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he had to supervise a gravimetric project. In 1879, he became a part-time lecturer in logic at the Johns Hopkins University, his only period of regular academic employment. After his forced resignation in 1884, he continued to work for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he was in charge of gravity experiments and pendulum research. But he was in frequent disagreement with the administrators from 1885 onward. Finally he resigned as of the end of 1891. From then until his death, he was unable to obtain regular employment again and hoped in vain to get his discoveries in mathematics and logic into print. He lived his last years on his farm "Arisbe", near Milford (Pa.), in illness and poverty. The "bucolic logician" (Peirce on Peirce) died at Arisbe in 1914. It was more than twenty years after his death, that scholars began to recognize the importance of his thought.

Essential Writings

On an Improvement in Boole's Calculus of Logic
     (1867)
On the Natural Classification of Arguments
     (1867)
On a New List of Categories
     (1867)
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The Journal of Speculative
Philosophy Cognition Series

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties
Claimed for Man
     (1868)
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
     (1868)
Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic
     (1869)
Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley
     (1871)
On a New Class of Observations,
suggested by the principles of Logic
     (1877)
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Illustrations of the
Logic of Science

The Fixation of Belief
     (1877)
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
     (1878)
The Doctrine of Chances
     (1878)
The Probability of Induction
     (1878)
The Order of Nature
     (1878)
Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis
     (1878)
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Photometric Researches
     (1878)
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On the Algebra of Logic
     (1880/85)
Introductory Lecture on the Study of Logic
     (1882)
Design and Chance
     (1883-84)
An American Plato: Review of Royce's
Religious Aspect of Philosophy
     (1885)
One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories
     (1886)
A Guess at the Riddle
     (1887-88)
Trichotomic
     (1888)
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The Monist
Metaphysical Series

The Architecture of Theories
     (1891)
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
     (1892)
The Law of Mind
     (1892)
Man's Glassy Essence
     (1892)
Evolutionary Love
     (1893)
Immortality in the Light of Synechism
     (1893)
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What Is a Sign?
     (1894)
Of Reasoning in General
     (1895)
Philosophy and the Conduct of Life
     (1898)
The First Rule of Logic
     (1898)
Pearson's Grammar of Science
     (1901)
Laws of Nature
     (1901)
On the Logic of Drawing History
from Ancient Documents.
Especially from Testimonies
     (1901)
On Science and Natural Classes
     (1902)
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Harvard Lectures
on Pragmatism

The Maxim of Pragmatism (Lecture I)
     (1903)
On Phenomenology (Lecture II)
     (1903)
The Categories Defended (Lecture III)
     (1903)
The Seven Systems of Metaphysics (Lecture IV)
     (1903)
The Three Normative Sciences (Lecture V)
     (1903)
The Nature of Meaning (Lecture VI)
     (1903)
Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction (Lecture VII)
     (1903)
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Lowell Lectures
on Logic

What Makes a Reasoning Sound?
     (1903)
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A Syllabus of Certain
Topics of Logic

An Outline Classification of the Sciences
     (1903)
The Ethics of Terminology
     (1903)
Sundry Logical Conceptions
     (1903)
Nomenclature and Divisions of Triadic Relations,
as Far as They Are Determined
     (1903)
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New Elements (Kaina stoixeia)
     (1904)
Ideas, Stray or Stolen, about Scientific Writing
     (1904)
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Pragmaticism

What Pragmatism Is
     (1905)
Issues of Pragmaticism
     (1905)
The Basis of Pragmaticism in Phaneroscopy
     (1906)
The Basis of Pragmaticism
in the Normative Sciences
     (1906)
Pragmatism
     (1907)
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A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God
     (1908)
A Sketch of Logical Critics
     (1911)
An Essay toward Reasoning
in Security and Uberty
     (1913)
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Correspondence

Appendix

The Peirce Edition Project
The Wasp Leaves the Bottle: Charles Sanders Peirce
Joseph Brent, Pursuing Peirce
Arisbe: Home of the Peirce Telecommunity
Sources/Colophon