Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism

ISBN: 9781107647633 出版年：2011 页码：273 Paul Forster Cambridge University Press

List of abbreviations Preface 1. Nominalism as demonic doctrine 2. Logic, philosophy and the special sciences 3. Continuity and the problem of universals 4. Continuity and meaning: Peirce's pragmatic maxim 5. Logical foundations of Peirce's pragmatic maxim 6. Experience and its role in inquiry 7. Scientific method as self-corrective - Peirce's view of the problem of knowledge 8. The unity of Peirce's theories of truth 9. Order from chaos: Peirce's evolutionary cosmology 10. A universe of chance: foundations of Peirce's indeterminism 11. From inquiry to ethics: the pursuit of truth as moral ideal.