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Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914) which are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, The Fixation of Belief and How to Make Our Ideas Clear, mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirces innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
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Peirce, Charles S.; Cohen, Morris Raphael; Dewey, John
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University of Nebraska Press
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0803287518
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9780803287518
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9780585265827
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English
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Pragmatism, Science--Philosophy, Metaphysics.
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1998
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B945.P43C5 1998eb
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191
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Pragmatism, Science--Philosophy, Metaphysics.
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Chance, Love, and Logic
Philosophical Essays
Charles Sanders Peirce
Edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Dewey Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Kenneth Laine Ketner
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Introduction to the Bison Books Edition 1998 by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
First Bison Books printing: 1998 Most recent printing indicated by the last digit below: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 18391914. Chance, love, and logic: philosophical essays / Charles Sanders Peirce; edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen; with an essay by John Dewey; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Kenneth Laine Ketner. p. cm. Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1923. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8032-8751-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Pragmatism. 2. SciencePhilosophy. 3. Metaphysics. 1. Cohen, Morris Raphael, 18801947. II. Dewey, John, 18591952. III. Title. B945.P43C5 1998 191dc21 97-53252 CIP
Reprinted from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., New York.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE BISON BOOKS EDITION
Kenneth Laine Ketner
It would be challenging to try to imagine a more attractive title for a book about philosophy, science, and argumentation than Chance, Love, and Logic, a name that is at once both accurate and charming. Perhaps no other out-of-print book concerning Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914), the founder of Pragmatism, is more deserving of reappearing in print than this volume.
Dr. Carolyn Eisele, one of the founders of the field of Peirce Studies and editor of his extensive writings on mathematics and the history of science,1 once mentioned to me that Morris Raphael Cohen (18801947) had done about as much as any mortal person to introduce Peirce's path-breaking work to the wider world where it was, and is, sorely needed. She was well informed; in her academic career at Hunter College in New York City, she had been acquainted with Cohen, who was a remarkable figure in American intellectual history. In fact, Eisele regarded Cohen as an unheralded hero for his pioneering efforts in bringing Peirce's writings to the public. These few introductory paragraphs constitute an outline justification of her assessment and a tribute to Cohen's important contribution to Peirce studies.
Chance, Love, and Logic (CLL) was the first anthology of Peirce's writings that was published after his death in 1914. As its editor, in light of the page limitation set by his publisher, Cohen chose the contents wisely. He selected two books Peirce published during his lifetime.
Uninformed scholars often remark that during his career Peirce published only one book, and that in photometry.2 This claim, however, is wrong; Cohen's edition consisting of two books is alone sufficient to demonstrate this fact.
The first such book Cohen selected Peirce entitled Illustrations of the Logic of Science, and it was serialized in Popular Science Monthly in six separate issues between 1877 and 1878.3 Peirce's logic of science (which he had developed as early as 1866) was a study of the
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methods of science prepared by a master of actual scientific methods (namely Peirce himself, who had a thirty-year career as a world-class physicist in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey). Today the topic would be known as the philosophy of science. These six essays were quickly transported to Europe,4 where they no doubt had a strong impact. (But that is a story for another day.) The second essay in this series, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear," is Peirce's classic presentation of his Pragmatic Maxim, although there he did not use either "pragmatic" or "pragmatism'' to name the principle (but he had used those terms in conversations since at least 1870). After the turn of the century, his original conception for pragmatism had become so misused and abused by other writers that Peirce declared he would select a new word for his earlier conception. He chose 'pragmaticism'"a word," he said, "that was so ugly it would be safe from kidnappers." Apparently he was right. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language has an entry for 'pragmaticism'it is simply "the philosophy of C. S. Peirce."
Peirce supplied no particular title for the second volume; it was composed of five essays on scientific metaphysics that appeared serially in The Monist during 1891 through 1893.5 Students of Peirce's work usually refer to that volume as "The 189193 Monist series on Scientific Metaphysics," a somewhat clumsy phrase. Indeed, Cohen's title would be ideal for the second book, because there Peirce discussed his hypotheses about the logic of what he called Tychism (Chance), Agapism (Love), and Synechism (Continuity).66 (Peirce preferred to coin new technical terms for new hypotheses within science.) Cohen had initially planned for name his edition Tychism, Agapism, and Synechism, but Mrs. Cohen persuaded him (much to the relief of his publisher) to translate those neologisms into a more standardized language.7 Apparently Peirce had planned a sixth essay devoted to synechism in
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