Pragmatism and Purpose : : Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge /

Pragmatism and Purpose : : Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge / / ed. by Leonard Sumner, John G. Slater, Fred Wilson.

The essays in this volume are connected with the main areas of Thomas A. Goudge's research: Peirce studies and the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology. There are two sections, each opened with an essay on Goudge's contribution to the field. The first section deals w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Burbidge, J. W.,
Fisch, Max H.,
Herzberger, Hans G.,
Hull, David L.,
Madden, Edward H.,
McRae, Robert,
Puccetti, Roland,
Roberts, Don D.,
Rosenberg, Alexander,
Ruse, Michael,
Savan, David,
Schouls, Peter A.,
Sprigge, T.L.S.,
Stroud, Barry,
Thagard, Paul R.,
Thayer, H.S.,
Thompson, Manley,
Tully, R.E.,
Williams, Mary B.,
Wilson, Fred,
HerausgeberIn:
Slater, John G.,
Sumner, Leonard,
Wilson, Fred,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1981
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One: The Thought of C.S. Peirce
  • The Unity of Peirce's Thought
  • Peirce on Historical Explanation
  • The 'Proof' of Pragmatism
  • Peirce's Remarkable Theorem
  • Scientific Inference: Peirce and the Humean Tradition
  • The Labeling Problem
  • Peirce and Descartes: Doubt and the Logic of Discovery
  • James, Santayana, Tarski, and Pragmatism
  • Peirce on Truth
  • Peirce's Conception of an Individual
  • Part Two: The Ascent of Life
  • Goudge's Contribution to Philosophy of Science
  • Historical Narratives and Integrating Explanations
  • Life, Vis Inertiae, and the Mechanical Philosophy
  • The Ascent of Consciousness
  • The Interaction of Evolutionary and Genetic Theory
  • Philosophical Aspects of the Darwinian Revolution
  • Evolution and the Necessities of Thought
  • The Autonomy of a Logic of Discovery
  • Emergence Revisited
  • Is Biology a Different Type of Science?
  • Notes
  • List of Works Cited
  • The Published Works of Thomas A. Goudge
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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