Charles Peirce and Modern Science Short T. L.
Charles Peirce and Modern Science Short T. L. In this book, T. L. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making…
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Charles Peirce and Modern Science Short T. L.
In this book, T. L. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making metaphysics a branch of empirical knowledge. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended to be refined or superseded in the inquiries they initiate.
Those innovations underlie Peirce's late ideas of a normative science and of philosophy as a branch of science. Additionally, Short shows that Peirce's scientific work expanded empiricism on empirical grounds, grounding his phenomenology and subverting the fact/value dichotomy, and that he understood statistical explanations in nineteenth-century science as reintroducing the idea of final causation, now made empirical. Short's rich and original study shows us how
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