Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays by Charles S. Peirce (PDF)

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Chance, Love, and Logic by Charles S. Peirce. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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⭐As best I remember, this was the earliest selection of Peirce’s essays to be collected into a book, dating from the early 1920s. Of course, anyone looking around here probably has each of the essays in “The Essential Peirce” or even in the Harvard or Indiana “collecteds”. This, though, has an intro by the great Morris Raphael Cohen and and afterward by John Dewey. Clear your mind of everything we now know about Peirce, and read this as most would have way back. It begins with the “Popular Science” essays, although the TOC, but not the text, calls the first one “The Taxation of Belief”. (Nifty idea). The second part includes “Evolutionary Love”, which still has members of the Arisbe discussion group arguing.In all, this selection preceded the Harvard “collected” volumes, and might have drawn the interest of Harvard’s philosophy department into the gold-mine of papers that Royce had persuaded them to buy.(A story from the great John J. McDermott, as best I remember it 45 years later: “Harvard’s Philosophy Department did not take seriously the writings that Josiah Royce had bought from the widow of that supposed crackpot, Peirce. The Department would give away some of Peirce’s papers to favored graduate students. One of them took a Peirce essay on logical Graphs to Alfred North Whitehead, who said, ‘Good heavens! If Russell and I had read this, we would never have bothered!'”)

⭐This is an interesting historical book with mixing ideas of philosophy, mathematics and other matters but very difficult to read. The edition is a disaster: notes are mixed with the body of the main text becoming difficult to link it. The different parts of the book are not marked. I do not recommend this book.

⭐Most of the Peirce’s writings here are found in other popular editions of his works, but the intro and conclusion are exceptionally important for anyone trying to understand Peirce, a major philosophical and scientific thinker who has helped to shape our age. This edition is a relatively old one, published in 1949 and only available as a used book, which I bought from Amazon. Morris Cohen’s 30 page Preface and Introduction, however, is as good as any written before or since, containing a technical but clear intro to Peirce’s logic, philosophy, and science. As a bonus, at the end of the book is a reprint of John Dewey’s argument for the superiority of the pragmaticism of Peirce over the pragmatism William James.Peirce’s contribution to logic is his “abduction,” which describes what traditional deduction and induction do not, namely how a hypothesis is created in the first place. Eventually this will lead to what physicists like Ilya Prigogine describe as the way order develops spontaneously out of chaos in far from equilibrium thermodynamic states. None of this is on the horizon yet when Cohen is writing, but Cohen’s meticulous descriptions of Peirce’s chance, logic, and evolutionary love surely help to set the scene for the “order for free” of not only Prigogine but biologists like Stuart Kauffman and Terrence Deacon.My only “criticism” of Cohen’s selection of Peirce’s essays, especially given the prominence of love in his title, is that he could have included another essay or two in which Peirce elaborates his ideas of evolutionary love (“agapism”), not as a cause but a description of the evolutionary process itself. Peirce scholars have generally ignored this subject. For anyone interested, I will be glad to send a copy of my paper for the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in June, 2014. My address is jthomas@mail.sdsu.edu or you1@verizon.net.

⭐Some typos due to OCR from Greek words & footnotes placed incorrectly but well worth the effort

⭐This a CS Peirce classic and has great historical significance!

⭐Very pleased with the order

⭐I am a Peirce Scholar and am always happy to have edited material works of his – even an older collection of some of his more famous published articles, such as the cognitive series of 1877-1878 and the monist series regarding metaphysics from 1882 to 1883. However, this kindle version is one of the worst versions of e-books I have ever seen. Even for me, who knows already Peirce and his texts, the arrangement – if there is any thirdness (that is, intention) in this arrangement indeed! – are utterly confusing. Therefore, I am giving this product a lower grade, with hopes that this e-book will be corrected.

⭐Excellent!

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