Peirce on Universals

A few Peircean thoughts related to that quote about Derrida from yesterday.

Derrida and Universals

This is a great quote I came upon. It deals with Derrida but applies equally to Pierce’s conception of universals. (I’ll see if I can’t find a Peirce quote tomorrow) I think Derrida was actually somewhat influenced by Peirce here. (Looking at this section on Peirce in On Grammatology) Although [...]

A Pragmatic Government

Over on Peirce-L there was an interesting bit of post-election discussion. The debate was whether Obama was a pragmatist. Here meaning the more philosophical sense of Peirce, James and Dewey rather than the more typical sense of the term.
Joseph Ransdell, whose writings I almost always read, offered some interesting comments.

The Idealistic Argument

Sorry for being so busy I’ve not written much. I’m working on a post on Blake’s book right now. Sorry for the delay there. In the mean time I came upon this great quote from Peirce. It gets at, I think, what is of concern in the so-called Continental tradition. [...]

Peirce and Consciousness

OK, I’m still pretty swamped. In the meantime here’s an interesting quote from Peirce that popped up at Peirce-L.

Strength of Belief

OK, I didn’t quite get the post on Blake’s book finished as I’d hoped to. In the meantime Splintered Mind had a thought provoking post on in-between believing. The situation is the well known case where someone answers that they aren’t racist yet in subtle ways acts in a racist manner.

Intuitionist Mathematics and Physics

There’s a great post at Mathematics and Computation on Intuitionist Mathematics and Physics. (HT: Philosophy, Science, and Method) I always found Intuitionism a bit vague in some key places but there’s a lot about it I like. The big issue is in what counts as evidence. I tend to favor the Peirce [...]

Peirce on Intuition

I’d discussed on the weekend intuitions and whether they are trustworthy. I was using the term more as some underlying cognitive process. Over at Brandon’s post I misread him as using that usage as well. Brandon’s point was basically that an intuition is just an element in an argument and as such [...]

Davidson: Knowing Ones Own Mind 2

This is a followup to my prior post on Davidson’s paper “Knowing Ones Own Mind” in Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Sorry for the delay. The part that is left in the paper deals with the question of “where” thoughts are. It’s an interesting question and one I’ve switched my own views on. [...]

Quickly - Peircean Generals

I’d written a big post on Peirce’s view of Generals and Universals. After finishing it I decided it just was way too technical and got into too much of Peirce’s metaphysics. So instead of expounding on Peirce’s theories let me offer a brief outline of a cosmology that I think works. I [...]

Peirce on Limiting the Pragmatic Maxim

The Pragmatic Maxim is fairly well known I think.
“Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.” (CP 5.258)
The question is how far one can take this.

Peirce on Truth

Three quotes by Peirce on truth that sound rather Heideggarian to me.

Peirce and Idealism

Over at Kenny Pearce was the 67th Philosopher’s Carnival. This time it was, for the most part, all about idealism. One problem with the term is that it tends to be a bit muddled and often only makes sense at particular times with a particular opposition. For instance in early 20th century [...]