10. The Paradox of Peirce's Realism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editors' Foreword vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. ILLUSTRATIONS xii
5. PART ONE. PRAGMATICISM: PEIRCE'S THEORY OF MEANING
6. 1. What Is the Pragmaticist Theory of Meaning? The First Phase 3
7. 2. What Is the Pragmaticist Theory of Meaning? 21
8. 3. Inquiry and Meaning 33
9. 4 Peirce on "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" 53
10. 5. Peirce's Pragmaticism 61
11. 6. Habit and the Logical Interpretant 75
12. PART TWO. COMMON-SENSE, SCIENCE, AND LOGIC
13. 7. Fallibilism and Belief 93
14. 8. Some Implications of Critical Common-sensism 111
15. 9. Peirce's Theory of Abstraction 121
16. 10. The Paradox of Peirce's Realism 133
17. 11. Peirce's Evolutionary Interpretations of the History of Science 143
18. 12. Peirce's Contributions to the Logic of Statements and Quantifiers 153
19. 13. The Logic of the Creative Process 166
20. PART THREE. PHENOMENOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
21. 14. On the Origins of Peirce's Phenomenology 185
22. 15. Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness 195
23. 16. Fourthness 209
24. 17. The Relativity of Nonrelativity: Some Reflections on Firstness 215
25. 18. Philosophic ReaUsm: A Study in the Modality of Being in Peirce anc Whitehead 225
26. 19. Peirce's Scotistic Realism 238
27. 20. Religion and Theology in Peirce 251
28. PART FOUR. BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
29. 21. Charles Sanders Peirce: 1839-1914 271
30. 22. Peirce at the Johns Hopkins University 277
31. 23. Peirce and Montgomery 312
32. 24. On the Future of Some of Peirce's Ideas 325
33. Notes 335
34. Appendixes 361
35. INDEX 383