Peirce and Descartes: Doubt and the Logic of Discovery

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Part One: The Thought of C.S. Peirce
7. The Unity of Peirce's Thought 3
8. Peirce on Historical Explanation 15
9. The 'Proof' of Pragmatism 28
10. Peirce's Remarkable Theorem 41
11. Scientific Inference: Peirce and the Humean Tradition 59
12. The Labeling Problem 75
13. Peirce and Descartes: Doubt and the Logic of Discovery 88
14. James, Santayana, Tarski, and Pragmatism 105
15. Peirce on Truth 121
16. Peirce's Conception of an Individual 133
17. Part Two: The Ascent of Life
18. Goudge's Contribution to Philosophy of Science 151
19. Historical Narratives and Integrating Explanations 172
20. Life, Vis Inertiae, and the Mechanical Philosophy 189
21. The Ascent of Consciousness 199
22. The Interaction of Evolutionary and Genetic Theory 207
23. Philosophical Aspects of the Darwinian Revolution 220
24. Evolution and the Necessities of Thought 236
25. The Autonomy of a Logic of Discovery 248
26. Emergence Revisited 261
27. Is Biology a Different Type of Science? 278
28. Notes 293
29. List of Works Cited 317
30. The Published Works of Thomas A. Goudge 329
31. Notes on Contributors 337
32. Index of Names 341
33. Index of Subjects 347