Peirce

Charles Sanders Pierce

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  • Impotant Dates

    Pierce lived from 9/10/1839-4/19/1914 (Burch). Pierce wrote his first paper of logic around 1851, but he focused on his philosophy of Pragmatism between the 1860s-1914 (Burch). His written papers and manuscripts were not chronologically reconstructed and analyzed until the 1980s (Burch). Burch, Robert, "Charles Sanders Peirce", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/peirce/.

  • Who was C.S. Pierce?

    He was a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, surveyer, photographer, experimental psychologist amongst other fields (Gaines). Although, he had many fields of expertise, he is well known for his, "...contribution to semiotics and pragmatism," (Gaines). Gains, Elliot, "Charles Sanders Pierce: Semiotics and the Logic of Pragmatism", Retrieved on April 2020. https://youtu.be/8PyecngCp1U?t=746

  • Pragmatism

    Pragmatism
    Pierce was considered the founder of Pragmatism, a method of right thinking, logically (Burch). He associated semiotics with the logical structural way of viewing science Pierce claimed there were three phases to this logical way of processing reality, what is true science: icon, index, and symbol (Gaines). (Burch's work cited on previous post)
    Gains, Elliot, "Charles Sanders Pierce: Semiotics and the Logic of Pragmatism", Retrieved on April 2020. https://youtu.be/8PyecngCp1U?t=746