--- product_id: 1699826 title: "The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913)" price: "50586CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1699826-the-essential-peirce-volume-2-selected-philosophical-writings-1893-1913 store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) **Price:** 50586CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) - **How much does it cost?** 50586CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1699826-the-essential-peirce-volume-2-selected-philosophical-writings-1893-1913) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Praise for Volume 1: " . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." ―Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's edition provides the first comprehensive anthology of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce's mature philosophy. A central focus of Volume 2 is Peirce's evolving theory of signs and its appplication to his pragmatism. Review: The Triadic Predicate... - Imo, no genius exists on Earth, the extent__scope, depth and breadth__of C.S. Peirce; and these two exquisite volumes certainly do represent the best ordered collection of his complete life's work available__that is as per his early ideas, as well as his mature thoughts. I especially thought his 'normative' and 'nomological' perspectives were the best that's ever been written, even to this day__and that includes of the 100's/1000's of present secondary authors, who have written about Peirce... Peirce is not only the world's foremost logician, he's also the world's foremost epistemologist, esthetician and rhetorician. As the previous reviewer noted; "His knowledge was immense and he is the only person that I know of who equals Aristotle." I couldn't agree more, and I being 67 years young, have read most all the philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, estheticians and rhetoricians... My assessment rests on a lifelong study of philosophy, as well as the last 10 years being spent researching all links, books and materials available about Peirce. I've also visited his homestead, and the museum down the street, in Milford, Penn__It's really a shame more hasn't been done, by our Gov., to more thoroughly commemorate this greatest of America's public servants... If you want the philosophical truth between 'The Continental' and 'The Analytic' schools of thought, then this man's 'Pragmatism' is for you, as it's all Peirce's own, in only the way he could tell it, though he credits all the authors throughout history, who's shoulders he stands upon__He also offers the most honest assessments of all the other philosophers, he chooses fit to mention, or dis-mention... I've been reading all the world's major philosophers, for years__but, it's always a pleasure to return to the master of em all__Peirce... As a matter of fact, I've had this book for over a month, but saved it for 1-1-2012, to start the new year off right__what a pleasure it's been... I don't think there's a word been said in philosophy, since Peirce's death, that can't be 'research-chased' back to this massive intellect__and that's no exaggeration, as it's been the largest part of my personal research project, over the last 10 years, of which I'm presently preparing an academic paper, and a few books. If anyone were to just type Peirce's name into Google, with a space + space, then type any important philosophical author after, since Peirce's late 1860's ideas on, and truly research the links, as to his primacy of ideas__you'll find em, as they exist, especially if the subjects of philosophy are also link searched__as that's simply how I found all the information linking Peirce to all modernity's most important philosophical ideas__pre-dating what academics has presently given false credits to other lessers__Just check out 'Peirce Law' as a primer, or his 1870 books on 'Boolean Logics and Maths...' I've never been more impressed by one man's total ideas, than by Peirce's, and I'm basically an economist, who uses Peirce's logic to improve my economic writings... I recommend these two volumes, more than anything in print__as imo, it takes Peirce's 'critical common sense' logic, to even begin to understand all the other subjects' ideas, especially in today's overly hyped World__He's by far, the most grounded man on Earth... Review: Peirce's Continued Development of His Career-text - Absolutely first-rate, indispensable selection of Peirce's continued development in the amazingly productive final 20 years of his life. In this phase (1893-1913), Peirce, building on the heritage of a trans-Atlantic paradigm of objective idealism tracing back to Kant's Third Critique, Goethe, Schiller, Schelling, and Emerson, amplified his early-phase epistemological writings on the logic of scientific inquiry and his mid-career metaphysical essays featuring his three "Kantian categories" (transcending the fundamental categories of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel), into a continuing stream of new essays that ramified his original Pragmatism into an ontological semiotics featuring such trajectories as the Basis of Pragmaticism in Phaneroscopy, a systematic configuration of the Normative Sciences, and an Architectonic of the Positive Sciences of Discovery (in the gamut of mathematics, philosophy, and the hard and soft sciences). Interspersed among the 33 essays of this volume, Peirce's original improvisations of such topics as Synechism of Nature and Mind, Musement concerning the Reality of God, and Uberty of Abductive Reasoning, remain unparalleled in the annals of modern philosophy, transcending any narrow scholastic identification, rather bid fair to establish him as one of the first-tier geniuses in the history of philosophy. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #588,405 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #35 in Pragmatist Philosophy #244 in Philosophy of Logic & Language #866 in Modern Western Philosophy | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 37 Reviews | ## Images ![The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61wECkWpTgL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Triadic Predicate... *by L***E on January 7, 2012* Imo, no genius exists on Earth, the extent__scope, depth and breadth__of C.S. Peirce; and these two exquisite volumes certainly do represent the best ordered collection of his complete life's work available__that is as per his early ideas, as well as his mature thoughts. I especially thought his 'normative' and 'nomological' perspectives were the best that's ever been written, even to this day__and that includes of the 100's/1000's of present secondary authors, who have written about Peirce... Peirce is not only the world's foremost logician, he's also the world's foremost epistemologist, esthetician and rhetorician. As the previous reviewer noted; "His knowledge was immense and he is the only person that I know of who equals Aristotle." I couldn't agree more, and I being 67 years young, have read most all the philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, estheticians and rhetoricians... My assessment rests on a lifelong study of philosophy, as well as the last 10 years being spent researching all links, books and materials available about Peirce. I've also visited his homestead, and the museum down the street, in Milford, Penn__It's really a shame more hasn't been done, by our Gov., to more thoroughly commemorate this greatest of America's public servants... If you want the philosophical truth between 'The Continental' and 'The Analytic' schools of thought, then this man's 'Pragmatism' is for you, as it's all Peirce's own, in only the way he could tell it, though he credits all the authors throughout history, who's shoulders he stands upon__He also offers the most honest assessments of all the other philosophers, he chooses fit to mention, or dis-mention... I've been reading all the world's major philosophers, for years__but, it's always a pleasure to return to the master of em all__Peirce... As a matter of fact, I've had this book for over a month, but saved it for 1-1-2012, to start the new year off right__what a pleasure it's been... I don't think there's a word been said in philosophy, since Peirce's death, that can't be 'research-chased' back to this massive intellect__and that's no exaggeration, as it's been the largest part of my personal research project, over the last 10 years, of which I'm presently preparing an academic paper, and a few books. If anyone were to just type Peirce's name into Google, with a space + space, then type any important philosophical author after, since Peirce's late 1860's ideas on, and truly research the links, as to his primacy of ideas__you'll find em, as they exist, especially if the subjects of philosophy are also link searched__as that's simply how I found all the information linking Peirce to all modernity's most important philosophical ideas__pre-dating what academics has presently given false credits to other lessers__Just check out 'Peirce Law' as a primer, or his 1870 books on 'Boolean Logics and Maths...' I've never been more impressed by one man's total ideas, than by Peirce's, and I'm basically an economist, who uses Peirce's logic to improve my economic writings... I recommend these two volumes, more than anything in print__as imo, it takes Peirce's 'critical common sense' logic, to even begin to understand all the other subjects' ideas, especially in today's overly hyped World__He's by far, the most grounded man on Earth... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Peirce's Continued Development of His Career-text *by D***H on May 25, 2019* Absolutely first-rate, indispensable selection of Peirce's continued development in the amazingly productive final 20 years of his life. In this phase (1893-1913), Peirce, building on the heritage of a trans-Atlantic paradigm of objective idealism tracing back to Kant's Third Critique, Goethe, Schiller, Schelling, and Emerson, amplified his early-phase epistemological writings on the logic of scientific inquiry and his mid-career metaphysical essays featuring his three "Kantian categories" (transcending the fundamental categories of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel), into a continuing stream of new essays that ramified his original Pragmatism into an ontological semiotics featuring such trajectories as the Basis of Pragmaticism in Phaneroscopy, a systematic configuration of the Normative Sciences, and an Architectonic of the Positive Sciences of Discovery (in the gamut of mathematics, philosophy, and the hard and soft sciences). Interspersed among the 33 essays of this volume, Peirce's original improvisations of such topics as Synechism of Nature and Mind, Musement concerning the Reality of God, and Uberty of Abductive Reasoning, remain unparalleled in the annals of modern philosophy, transcending any narrow scholastic identification, rather bid fair to establish him as one of the first-tier geniuses in the history of philosophy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A semiosis that operates within indexically linked networks is a more robust and "fit" species. *by G***R on September 17, 2018* Networks permit indexical semiosis, signs that are vocally "related" to each other. Smoke is not merely a symbol of fire; it is also a chemical aspect of that fire. The point of the indexical relationship is that it operates within multiple codal networks: it is a physical, a chemical, a biologic as well as a symbolic codal relationship. 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