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A Life of Peirce (1857-1914)
His works that are published include around 12,000 printed pages and around 80,000 unpublished manuscripts. These works span from 1857 up to the year of his death in 1914. -
Early Published Charles - Semiosis
A youthful Charles Peirce published a paper titled “On a New List of Categories”. This paper described the three categories of semiosis. This contributed to the study of signs in the 1860s. The three categories from Peirce are a sign, it’s object, and it’s interpretant. -
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A Peirce Family Project
Aiding his father, Benjamin Peirce, a Mathematics Professor at Harvard College in the Geodetic Survey. Charles was assigned to supervise a project that will eventually lead to the discovery of the pendulum regarding to measuring the force of gravity. With this occupation as supervisor he made the pioneer determine to use the meter to measure the wavelength of light.
With the pendulum, Charles conducted over 20 experiments and theories to contribute to the Gravity theory. -
Video
“What distinguishes a Person from a Word? - C.S. Peirce Thought https://youtu.be/xyEkmdW6e14 -
References
Burch, Robert, "Charles Sanders Peirce", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/peirce Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Charles Sanders Peirce". Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Sep. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Sanders-Peirce. Accessed 24 January 2021.