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Peircean Themes

Peircean Themes. Critique of Cartesianism-illusory to claim that one can simultaneously doubt everything and then establish some truth. Charles S. Peirce.

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Peircean Themes

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  1. Peircean Themes • Critique of Cartesianism-illusory to claim that one can simultaneously doubt everything and then establish some truth.

  2. Charles S. Peirce • Quest for apodictic certainty only leads to enervating skepticism. Isolated knower-mistakenly presumes to be in possession of absolute truth.

  3. Charles S. Peirce • Anti-Foundationalism-shift from self-certifying intuitions to self-correcting methods and from origin to outcomes. • Metaphor of maps

  4. Charles S. Peirce • Human consciousness is semiotic consciousness-cannot think without signs. • Habit-incarnate signs-tendencies of things.

  5. Charles S. Peirce • Norms of objective inquiry are inherent in the practices in which they operate.- Immanent in practice and govern practice.

  6. Charles S. Peirce • “Objectivity”- what humans, equipped with certain organic capacities & trained with certain intellectual disciplines, can experience.

  7. Charles S. Peirce • Scholastic realism- three irreducible modes of being: possibility, actuality, and generality. • “The general is real.”

  8. Charles S. Peirce • Tychism- 1. Some occurrences are really random. 2. Nature is not wholly predictable even in principle. • Chance is an objective feature of the natural world.

  9. Charles S. Peirce • Syncheism- Continuity and connectedness are primordial & irreducible feature of nature. One starts with continua or fields such as space-time.

  10. Charles S. Peirce • Evolutionism and Agapism- dynamic tendencies toward integration. There is evolution toward greater complexity and harmony.

  11. Charles S. Peirce • Critical Commonsenism-the massive stock of our common sense beliefs makes critical inquiry possible.

  12. Charles S. Peirce • Phenomenological recovery of everyday experience-imaginative, forming, testing, revising, rejecting hypotheses provides inexhaustible resources for philosophical reflection.

  13. Charles S. Peirce • Concepts (categories) designed to grasp phenomena & guide and goad inquiry. • Firstness, secondness & thirdness.

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