Charles Sanders Peirce

  • Charles Sanders Peirce

    Charles Sanders Peirce was born in Cambridge Massachusetts
  • Employment

    Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific compacities by the United States Coast Survey in its successor
  • Education

    Bachelor of arts degree and a masters of arts degree at Harvard
  • Education

    Bachelor Degree of Science degree from Lawrence Scientific school
  • Employment

    He was elected as a resident fellow of the American Academy of Arts of Science
  • Employment

    John Hopkins University appointed him lecture and logic, which had strong departments which interested him. Such as philosophy, psychology, and mathematics where he also co authored a landmark empirical study.
  • Employment

    He was appointed to the Assay Commission by President Grover Cleveland
  • Death

    Charles sanders Peirce Died destitute in Milford Pennsylvania.
  • After Death

    philosopher Paul Wieiss called Pierce "The most original and versatile of American Philosophers and America's greatest logician". A.N. Whitehead, while reading some of Pierces unpublished manuscripts at Harvard in 1924, Was struck by how Peirce had anticipated his own "process" thinking. Karl Popper viewed Peirce " one of the greatest Philosophers of all times "