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"This definitive text is the single best work on Peirce's semeiotic (as Peirce would have spelled it) allowing scholars to extrapolate beyond Peirce or to apply him to new areas . . ." -Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter ... Read more

Book Description
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839--1914) has often beenreferred to as one of the most important North American philosophers,but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only nowbeginning to emerge. Peirce's `pragmaticism' (his own term) mayprovide the key to an epistemological theory which avoids both theScylla of foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism. Peirce's`Logic', linked to a conception of knowledge and of science, isincreasingly coming to be recognised as the only possible one.
InLiving Doubt, 26 papers are presented by some of the world'sleading philosophers, demonstrating the rich and cosmopolitan varietyof approach to Peirce's epistemology. The contributions are groupedunder three general headings: Knowledge, truth and the pragmaticprinciple; Peirce and the epistemological tradition; and Knowledge,language and semeiotic.
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