Late Peirce

This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a 15-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirce's philosophical work. Peirce moved to the house he named Arisbe in Milford, Pennsylvania, in 1888. Here, he lived in relative isolation and continued to work on his scientific and semiotic philosophy. Peirce developed a modern logic that was influenced by changes he saw in the interdisciplinary study of science and technology, transforming his Pragmatism into his Pragmaticism. This action regarding Pragmaticism was a reaction against the downfall of deductive logic, and led Peirce to believe in the vagueness ("would-be") of logical realism in deduction and later abduction. In Peirce's later phase, he situated the "new" mathematics as a labyrinth of semiotic signs through which the quasi-mind of the logician could find a specialized sense to intuit the evolutionary semiosis of reality. The chapters in this volume examine all major dimensions of his thought during this period. Late Peirce will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in Peirce, American philosophy, pragmatism, logic, and semiotics.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Distinguished Professor of English and Philosophy at Texas A&M University -Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. Dinda L. Gorlée is a semiotician of applied linguistics (Peirce, Jakobson, and Wittgenstein) and translation theoretician with interests in philosophical, musical, and interarts studies. She works in the Wittgenstein Archives (University of Bergen, Norway), but is a member of the Collegium to lead the International Association of Semiotics (IASS) into the future.

Introduction Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Dinda L. Gorlée 1.The Telos of Peirce's Late Thought Nathan Houser 2. A Mind on Fire: The Late Peirce Vincent M. Colapietro 3. The Late Peirce's Turn to the Normative Sciences James Jakób Liszka 4. Peirce's Semiotic Grounding of Pragmatism: A Look at the 1907 Manuscript R318 Cornelis de Waal 5. Peirce's Late Lexicography: Baldwin's Dictionary (1900-1901) Jeffrey R. Di Leo 6. Pragmaticism as a Doctrine of Applied Sciences Elize Bisanz 7. Toward Peirce's Later Version of Symbolic Logic: Transforming Experimental Language into Algebraic Graphs Dinda L. Gorlée 8. The Correspondence between Peirce and Welby, Two (In)actual Philosophers Susan Petrilli 9. The Semiotic Morphology of Problem Solving: A Framework based on Peirce's Ten Classes of Signs Joao Queiroz and Pedro Atã 10. Understanding Peirce's "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" of 1908 Jaime Nubiola 11. Musement as the Platform for Instinctual Abductions: Logical Interpretants as Progenitors of Phenomenological Thirdness Donna E. West 12. C. S. Peirce's Answers to the Anthropocene Lucia Santaella.