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Peirce's Articles on Pragmaticism First Published
In the first of these papers Peirce defended, in a manner consistent with not accepting naive realism, the superiority of the scientific method over other methods of overcoming doubt and “fixing belief.” -
William James names Charles Peirce as Pragmatisms Founder
For 20 years Peirce had not returned to develop more onto his ideas of pragmatism. This speech given by James gave him the need and want to re-engage with his original philosophy and felt his accreditation by James was exactly what he needed to regain his traction within the philosophical and academic communities. -
Peirce's Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture 5
After re-engaging and redeveloping his thoughts on pragmatism where he proposed philosophy in general should never stray from scientific inquiry. What he meant was a thought or sentence only has meaning and an observational effect in the world. And the use of experimental effects can help identify "meaningless" statements. This was first stated in writing and publicly when Peirce gave a series of lectures at Harvard to both philosophy and science students. -
Peirce Publishes Vol 2. of his Collection of "What Pragmatism Is."
This published work by Peirce he completed the break from the older philosophies of Determinism. He describes no matter ho skilled the experimentalist is, no data is completely unchanged. A measurement taken 1000 times will never show a straight plateau of collected data but instead ridges of difference in what we now know as the "margin of error." And by showing that our own feelings and can get in the way and being aware of this we can better separate these feelings. -
Sources.
Peirce, C.S. 1905/1998. “What Pragmatism Is.” In The Essential Peirce, Vol.2., ed. The Peirce Edition Project. (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press), pp. 331-345. Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V. MS [R] 312. Peirce, C.S. 1878/1992. “How To Make Our Ideas Clear.” In The Essential Peirce, Vol.1, eds. N. Houser and C. Kloesel. (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press), pp. 124-141. -
Sources cont.
Burch, R. (2021, February 11). Charles Sanders Peirce (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Stanford.Edu. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/#:%7E:text=Charles%20Sanders%20Peirce%20%281839%E2%80%931914%29%20was%20the%20founder%20of,developer%20of%20an%20evolutionary%2C%20psycho-physically%20monistic%20metaphysical%20system.
