Peirce’s Epistemology by W.H. Davis.

This work is an essay in Peirce's epistemology, with about an equal emphasis on the "epistemology" as on the "Peirce's." In other words our intention has not been to write exclusively a piece of Peirce scholarshiJ> hence, the reader will find no elaborate tying in o...

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Main Author:	Davis, W.H (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1972.
Edition:	1st ed. 1972.
Series:	Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Philosophy and social sciences. Epistemology. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:

I. Inference: The Essence of All Thought
A. There would be no telling of an intuition if we had one
B. As a matter of fact the mind works inferentially
C. Knowing is a process in time
D. There is no intuitive self-consciousness
E. Peirce’s divergence from Kant
F. Thought is sign activity
II. Hypothesis or Abduction: The Originative Phase of Reasoning
A. Deduction, Induction, and Abduction
B. A suggested solution to the problem of induction
C. Abduction and explanation
D. What kind of abductions are meaningful, significant, admissible?
E. The hypothesis of God: a test case
F. Peirce and James
G. Peirce and Kant
H. Peirce and John Wisdom
III. Fallibilism: The Self-Corrective Feature of Thought
A. The notion of “meaning” examined on Peircean principles
B. Organism and Interdependence in knowledge
IV. Concrete Reasonableness: Cooperation Between Reason and Instinct
A. Abduction is inference guided by nature’s hand
B. Evolution and Critical-commonsensism
C. Theory and Practice
V. The Cartesian Circle: A Final Look at Scepticism
A. The theory of types as applied to ordinary language
B. Believing is seeing
C. Conclusions
Indez.

Peirce’s Epistemology by W.H. Davis.

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