Charles Peirce's Theory of Scientific Method
This book is an attempt to understand a significant part of the complex thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, especially in those areas which interested him most: scientific method and related philosophical questions. It is organized primarily from Peirce's own writings, taking chronological settings i...
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Fordham University Press
1970.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- I CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE: PHILOSOPHER, SCIENTIST, WRITER
- II THE SCIENTIST'S CONCERN: KNOWLEDGE FOR ITS OWN SAKE
- III THE STAGES OF THE METHOD (i): EXPERIENCE AND HYPOTHESIS
- IV THE STAGES OF THE METHOD (ii): DEDUCTION AND INDUCTION
- V THE MODERATE FALLIBILISM OF SCIENCE
- VI SOME EVALUATIONS
- APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NOTES
- INDEX