Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce

✍ Scribed by Nathan Houser (editor), Don D. Roberts (editor), James Van Evra (editor)

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 669
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume represents an important contribution to Peirce's work in mathematics and formal logic. An internationally recognized group of scholars explores and extends understandings of Peirce's most advanced work. The stimulating depth and originality of Peirce's thought and the continuing relevance of his ideas are brought out by this major book.

✦ Table of Contents

FOREWORD, Jaakko Hintikka
PREFACE, Risto Hilpinen
1. INTRODUCTION: Peirce as Logician, Nathan Houser
2. Peirce between Logic and Mathematics, Ivor Grattan-Guinness
3. Peirce's Axiomatization of Arithmetic, Paul Shields
4. Peirce's Philosophical Conception of Sets, Randall R. Dipert
5. Peirce's Pre-Logistic Account of Mathematics, Angus Kerr-Lawson
6. Peirce's Theoremic/Corollarial Distinction and the Interconnections between Mathematics and Logic, Stephen H. Levy
7. Peirce and Russell: The History of a Neglected Controversy, Benjamin S. Hawkins, Jr.
8. Logic and Mathematics in Charles Sanders Peirce's "Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives", James Van Evra
9. Relations and Quantification in Peirce's Logic, Daniel D. Merrill
10. From the Algebra of Relations to the Logic of Quantifiers, Geraldine Brady
11. The Role of the Matrix Representation in Peirce's Development of the Quantifiers, Alan J. Iliff
12. Peirce on the Application of Relations to Relations, Robert W. Burch
13. Peirce's Reduction Thesis, Robert W. Burch
14. Genuine Triads and Teridentity, Jacqueline Brunning
15. Peirce's Influence on Logic in Poland, Henry Hiz
16. Tarski's Development of Peirce's Logic of Relations, Irving H. Anellis
17. New Light on Peirce's Iconic Notation for the Sixteen Binary Connectives, Glenn Clark
18. Untapped Potential in Peirce's Iconic Notation for the Sixteen Binary Connectives, Shea Zellweger
19. A Decision Method for Existential Graphs, Don D. Roberts
20. Peirce and Philo, Jay Zeman
21. Matching Logical Structure to Linguistic Structure, John F. Sowa
22. The Interconnectedness of Peirce's Diagrammatic Thought, Beverley Kent
23. What Is Deduction?, E. James Crombie
24. Peirce and the Structure of Abductive Inference, Tomis Kapitan
25. Logic, Learning, and Creativity in Evolution, Arthur W. Burks
26. A Nonmonotonic Approach to Tychist Logic, Ana H. Marostica
27. The Development of Peirce's Theories of Proper Names, Jarrett Brock
28. Charles Peirce's Theory of Proper Names, Jeffrey R. DiLeo