Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Conversation I : Pragmatism, Idealism, Realism
7. 1. Peirce on Berkeley’s Nominalistic Platonism 1
8. 2. Who’s a Pragmatist: Royce, Dewey, and Peirce at the Turn of the Century 16
9. 3. Two Peircean Realisms: Some Comments on Margolis 44
10. 4. The Degeneration of Pragmatism: Peirce, Dewey, Rorty 58
11. Conversation II: Perception and Inquiry
12. 5. Peirce’s Dynamical Object: Realism as Process Philosophy 73
13. 6. Another Radical Empiricism: Peirce 1903 100
14. 7. Peirce on Interpretation 114
15. 8. Peirce and Pearson: The Aims of Inquiry 132
16. Conversation III: Cultural Considerations
17. 9. The Pragmatic Importance of Peirce’s Religious Writings 147
18. 10. Realism and Idealism in Peirce’s Cosmogony 166
19. 11. Love of Nature: The Generality of Peircean Concern 178
20. 12. Developmental Theism: A Peircean Response to Fundamentalism 191
21. Addendum
22. Peirce’s Coefficient of the Science of the Method: An Early Form of the Correlation Coefficient 207
23. Notes 231
24. References 245
25. Index 253
26. American Philosophy 257