selected and edited with an introd. by Justus Buchler.
New York,
Dover Publications
[1955]
386 p.
illus.
21 cm.
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the book first published in 1940 under the title 'The philosophy of Peirce: selected writings.'"
Concerning the author -- The fixation of belief -- How to make our ideas clear -- The scientific attitude and fallibilism -- Philosophy and the sciences : a classification -- The principles of phenomenology -- Logic as semiotic : the theory of signs -- The criterion of validity in reasoning -- What is a leading principle? -- The nature of mathematics -- Abduction and induction -- On the doctrine of chances, with later reflections -- The probablity of induction -- The general theory of probable inference -- Uniformity -- Come consequences of four incapacities -- The essentials of pragmatism -- Pragmatism in retrospect : a last formulation -- Critical common-sensism -- Perceptual judgments -- Two notes : motives, on percepts -- The approach to metaphysics -- The architecture of theories -- The doctrine of necessity examined -- The law of mind -- Synechism, fallibilism, and evolution -- Evoluntionary love -- The concept of god