Selected Bibliography of Secondary Literature on Charles Peirce
“Trans” = Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of American philosophy; all issues are available in numerous online databases (including JSTOR) accessible through GALILEO, at the UWG Library website: http://www.westga.edu/library/.
Highlighted works are recommended.
Articles on Peirce
Douglas Anderson
“Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism” in A Companion to Pragmatism, ed. John Shook and Joseph Margolis, Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 154-165.
“Peirce and the Art of Reasoning,” Studies in Philosophy and Education 24 (3-4) 2005, 277-289.
“Peirce’s Agape and the Generality of Concern,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 37 (2) 1995, 103-112.
“Three Appeals in Peirce’s Neglected Argument,” Trans 26 (3) 1990, 349-362.
“Peirce and Heidegger: A Shared Concern,” Philosophy Today 30, 1986, 119-125.
Cornelis de Waal
“Having an Idea of Matter: A Peircean Refutation of Berkeleyan Immaterialism,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 67 (2) 2006, 291-313.
“Why Metaphysics Needs Logic and Mathematics Doesn’t: Mathematics, Logic, and Metaphysics in Peirce’s Classification of the Sciences,” Trans 41 (2) 2005, 283-297.
“Eleven Challenges to the Pragmatic Theory of Truth,” Trans 35 (4) 1999, 748-766.
“Peirce’s Nominalist-Realist Distinction, an Untenable Dualism,” Trans 34 (1) 1998, 183-202.
“The Real Issue between Nominalism and Realism: Peirce and Berkeley Reconsidered,” Trans 32 (3) 1996, 425-442.
Susan Haack
“Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism,” Trans 41 (2) 2005, 239-253.
“Reflections of a Critical Common-sensist,” Trans 32 (3) 1996, 359-373.
“Philosophy / philosophy, an Untenable Dualism,” Trans 29 (3) 1993, 411-426.
“Peirce and Logicism: Notes Towards an Exposition,” Trans 29 (1) 1993, 33-56.
“‘Extreme Scholastic Realism’: Its Relevance to Philosophy of Science Today,” Trans 28 (1) 1992, 19-50.
“Descartes, Peirce and the Cognitive Community,” The Monist 65 (2) 1982, 156-81.
Robert Lane
“Persons, Signs, Animals: A Peircean Account of Personhood,” Trans 45 (1), 2009, 1-26.
“Peirce’s Modal Shift: From Set Theory to Pragmaticism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (4) 2007, 551-576.
“Peirception: Haack’s Critical Common-sensism about Perception,” in Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinctions. The Philosopher Responds to Her Critics, ed. Cornelis de Waal, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2007, 109-22.
“Synechistic Bioethics: How a Peircean Views the Abortion Debate,” Contemporary Pragmatism 3 (2) 2006, 151-170.
“On Peirce’s Early Realism,” Trans 40 (4) 2004, 575-605.
“Peirce’s Triadic Logic Revisited,” Trans 35 (2) 1999, 284-311.
“Peirce’s ‘Entanglement’ with the Principles of Excluded Middle and Contradiction,” Trans 33 (3) 1997, 680-703.
Catherine (Cathy) Legg
“Making It Explicit and Clear: From Strong to Hyper-Inferentialism in Brandom and Peirce,” Metaphilosophy, 39 (1) 2008, 105-123.
“This Is Simply What I Do,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (1) 2003, 58-80.
“Predication and the Problem of Universals,” Philosophical Papers 30 (2) 2001, 117-143. [available from Dr. Lane]
Naturalism and Wonder: Peirce on the Logic of Hume's Argument against Miracles,” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 28 (1-4) 2001, 297-318.
“Extension, Intension and Dormitive
Virtue,” Trans 35 (4) 1999, 654-677.
Rosa Mayorga
“On Talisse's Peirceanist Theory,” Trans 45 (1) 2009, 65-70.
“Rethinking Democratic Ideals in Light of Charles Peirce,” Contemporary Pragmatism 5 (2) 2008, 1-10. [available from Dr. Lane]
“Diamonds are a Pragmaticist’s Best Friend,” Trans 41 (2) 2005, 255-270.
“The Hair: On the Difference between Peirce’s Nominalism and His Realism,” Trans 40 (3) 2004, 433-455.
Mark Migotti
“The Key to Peirce’s View of the Role of Belief in Scientific Inquiry,” Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia 6 (1), 2005, 43-55. [Dr. Lane has a copy]
“Peirce’s First Rule of Reason and the Bad Faith of Rortian Post-Philosophy,” Trans 31 (1) 1995, 89-136.
Cheryl Misak
“Pragmatism on Solidarity, Bullshit, and other Deformities of Truth,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32, 2008, 111-121.
“Pragmatism and Pluralism,” Trans 41 (1) 2005, 129-135.
“Making Disagreement Matter: Pragmatism and Deliberative Democracy,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (1) 2004, 9-22.
“C. S. Peirce on Vital Matters,” Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia 3, 2002, 64-82. [Dr. Lane has a copy]
“Pragmatism and the Transcendental Turn in Truth and Ethics,” Trans 30 (4) 1994, 739-775.
“Peirce, Levi and the Aims of Inquiry,” Philosophy of Science 54, 1987, 256-265.
T. L. Short
“Measurement and Philosophy,” Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia 9 (1) 2008, 111-124. [Dr. Lane has a copy]
“Fallibilism Is Omega-Inconsistent,” Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia 7 (2) 2006, 293-301.
“Robin on Perception and Sentiment in Peirce,” Trans 38 (1-2) 2002, 267-282.
“Was Peirce a Weak Foundationalist?” Trans 36 (4) 2000, 503-528.
“Peirce on the Aim of Inquiry: Another Reading of Fixation,” Trans 36 (1) 2000, 1-23.
“The Discovery of Scientific Aims and Methods,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2) 1998, 293-312.
Edited Collections of Essays on Peirce
The Cambridge Companion to Peirce, ed. Cheryl Misak, 2004. [on reserve at UWG Library]
Cheryl Misak, “Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)”
Sami Pihlström, “Peirce’s Place in the Pragmatist Tradition,”
John Boler, “Peirce and Medieval Thought”
David Wiggins, “Reflections on Inquiry and Truth Arising from Peirce’s Method for the Fixation of Belief”
Christopher Hookway, “Truth, Reality, and Convergence”
Cheryl Misak, “C. S. Peirce on Vital Matters”
Douglas Anderson, “Peirce’s Common Sense Marriage of Religion and Science”
Sandra Rosenthal, “Peirce’s Pragmatic Account of Perception: Issues and Implications”
T. L. Short, ”The Development of Peirce’s Theory of Signs”
Peter Skagestad, “Peirce’s Semeiotic Model of the Mind”
Isaac Levi, “Beware of Syllogism: Statistical Reasoning and Conjecturing According to Peirce”
Randall Dipert, “Peirce’s Deductive Logic: Its Development, Influence, and Philosophical Significance”
C. S. Peirce: Categories to Constantinople, ed. Jaap van Brakel and M. van Heerden, 1998 [Dr. Lane has a copy]
Guy Debrock, “Peirce’s Category of Secondness and Information”
Jaap van Brakel, “Peirce’s Natural Kinds”
Luciano Floridi, “The Importance of Being Earnest: Skepticism and the Limits of Fallibilism in Peirce”
Michael van Heerden, “Reason and Instinct”
Ralf Müller, “Peirce’s Existential Graphs: First Inquiries Towards a Proper Understanding”
Menno Hulswit, “Semeiotic, Causation and Semeiotic Causation”
Els Wouters, “Creative Abduction in the Detective Story”
Gérard Deledalle, “Peirce, Theologian”
The Rule of Reason: the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce [Dr. Lane has a copy]
Jacqueline Brunning, Paul Forster, “Introduction”
Jaakko Hintikka, “The Place of C.S. Peirce in the History of Logical Theory”
Isaac Levi, “Inference and Logic According to Peirce”
T. Paul Forster, “The Logical Foundations of Peirce’s Indeterminism”
Robert W. Burch, “A Tarski-Style Semantics for Peirce’s Beta Graphs”
Jay Zeman, “The Tinctures and Implicit Quantification over Worlds”
Sandra B. Rosenthal, “Pragmatic Experimentalism and the Derivation of the Categories”
Richard S. Robin, “Classical Pragmatism and Pragmatism’s Proof”
Helmut Pape, “The Logical Structure of Idealism: C. S. Peirce’s Search for a Logic of Mental Processes”
Carl R. Hausman, “Charles Peirce and the Origin of Interpretation”
Christopher Hookway, “Sentiment and Self-Control”
Douglas R. Anderson, “A Political Dimension of Fixing Belief”
Susan Haack, “The First Rule of Reason”
Vincent M. Colapietro, “The Dynamical Object and the Deliberative Subject”
T. L. Short, “Hypostatic Abstraction in Self-Consciousness”
Calvin G. Normore, “David Savan: In Memoriam”
Peirce and Contemporary Thought: Philosophical Inquiries, ed. Kenneth Laine Ketner, 1995. [electronic copy available through the UWG Library catalog; Dr. Lane also has a copy]
I. Peirce and Logic
Hilary Putnam, “Peirce’s Continuum”
W. V. Quine, “Peirce’s Logic”
Randall R. Dipert, “Peirce’s Underestimated Place in the History of Logic”
Isaac Levi, “Induction According to Peirce”
Joseph S. Ullian, “On Peirce on Induction: A Response to Levi”
II. Peirce and Science
Nicholas Rescher, “Peirce on the Validation of Science”
Cornelius J. Delaney, “Peirce on the Reliability of Science”
Carolyn Eisele, “Charles S Peirce, Mathematician”
Helena M. Prycio, “Peirce at the Intersection of Mathematics and Philosophy: A Response to Eisele”
Joseph W. Dauben, “Peirce and History of Science”
Peter Skagestad, “Discussion: Peirce and the History of Science”
III. Peirce and Semeiosis
Umberto Eco, “Unlimited Semeiosis and Drift: Pragmaticism vs. ‘Pragmatism’”
Thomas A. Sebeok, “Indexicality”
Jürgen Habermas, “Peirce and Communication”
Klaus Oehler, “A Response to Habermas”
Risto Hilpinen, “Peirce on Language and Reference”
Michael Shapiro, “History as Theory: One Linguist’s View”
IV. Peirce and Metaphysics
David Savan, “Peirce and Idealism”
Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, “A Response to Savan Demetra”
Charles Hartshorne, “Peirce and Religion: Between Two Forms of Religious Belief”
Vincent G. Potter, “A Response to Hartshorne”
Karl-Otto Apel, “Transcendental Semeiotic and Hypothetical Metaphysics of Evolution: A Peircean of Quasi-Peircean Answer to a Recurrent Problem of Post-Kantian Philosophy”
Christopher Hookway, “Metaphysics, Science, and Self-Control: a Response to Apel”
Peirce and Value Theory, ed. Herman Parret, 1994. [Dr. Lane has a copy]
Part 1: Peirce on Ethics
John J. Stuhr , “Rendering the World More Reasonable—the Practical Significance of Peirce’s Normative Science”
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, “Peirce and Royce on Person—New Directions for Ethical Theory”
John Michael Krois, “C. S. Peirce and Philosophical Ethics”
Cheryl Misak, “A Peircean Account of Moral Judgments”
Richard Smyth, “What Logic Can Learn from Ethics”
Mary B. Mahowald, “Collaboration and Casuistry—a Peircean Pragmatic for the Clinical Setting”
Elizabeth Saporiti, “Peircean Triads in the Work of J. Lacan—Desire and the Ethics of the Sign”
Part 2: Peirce’s Aesthetics in the Context of Philosophical Thought
Victorino Tejera, “The Primacy of the Aesthetic in Peirce, and Classic American Philosophy”
Armen Marsoobian, “Art and Interpretation—Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning”
Angela Ales Bello, “Peirce and Husserl—Abduction, Apperception and Aesthetics”
Irene Portis-Winner, “Peirce, Saussure and Jakobson’s Aesthetic Function. Towards a Synthetic View of the Aesthetic Function”
Omar Calabrese, “Some Reflections on Peirce’s Aesthetics from a Structuralist Point of View”
Part 3: Peirce’s Aesthetics in the Context of His Thought
Jeffrey Barnouw, “The Place of Peirce’s ‘Esthetic’ in his Thought and in the Tradition of Aesthetics”
Herman Parret, “Peircean Fragments on the Aesthetic Experience”
Pere Salabert, “Aesthetic Experience in Charles S. Peirce—the Threshold”
Roberta Kevelson, “The Mediating Role of Esthetics in Charles S. Peirce’s Semiotics—Configurations and Space Relations”
James W. Garrison, “The Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics of Geometrical Construction”
Part 4: Peirce’s Aesthetics and its Applications
Per Aage Brandt, “Objects, Signs, and Works of Art. A Semiotic Study of Aesthesis”
Svend Erik Larsen, “Representation and Intersemiosis”
Thomas G. Winner, “Peirce and Literary Studies with Special Emphasis on the Theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle”
Marie Francoeur and Louis Francoeur, “Scientific Fiction and Literary Fiction”
Francoise Caruana, “‘Origin’ in the Peircean Interpretation of a Painting”
Eero Tarasti, “Can Peirce Be Applied to Music?”
Robert S. Hatten, “A Peircean Perspective on the Growth of Markedness and Musical Meaning”
Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science, ed. Edward Moore, 1993. [electronic copy available through the UWG Library catalog; Dr. Lane also has a copy]
Edward C. Moore, “Introduction:
Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science”
Part 1. Logic and Mathematics
C. F. Delaney, “Peirce on the Conditions of the Possibility of
Science”
Claudine Engel-Tiercelin, “Peirce’s Realistic Approach to
Mathematics: Or, Can One Be a Realist without Being a Platonist?”
R. Valentine Dusek, “Peirce as Philosophical Topologist”
James H. Fetzer, “Peirce and Propensities”
Peter Gärdenfors, “Induction and the Evolution of Conceptual
Spaces”
Anthony J. Graybosch, “Abduction, Justification, and Realism”
Leila Haaparanta, “Peirce and the Logic of Logical Discovery”
Shelby D. Hunt, “Truth, Laudan, and Peirce: A View from the
Trenches”
Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., “Peirce and Statistics”
Joseph Margolis, “Peirce’s View of the Vague and the Definite”
Deborah G. Mayo, “The Test of Experiment: C. S. Peirce and E.
S. Pearson”
Jeremiah McCarthy, “Pragmatism, Abduction, and Weak
Verification”
Ilkka Niiniluoto, “Peirce’s Theory of Statistical Explanation”
Peter Robinson, “Peirce on Problem Solving”
Part 2. The Physical Sciences
Peder Voetmann Christiansen, “Peirce as Participant in the
Bohr-Einstein Discussion”
Eliseo Fernández, “From Peirce to Bohr: Theorematic Reasoning
and Idealization in Physics”
Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, “The Role of Potentiality in Peirce’s
Tychism and in Contemporary Discussions in Quantum Mechanics and Microphysics”
Philip H. Hwang, “Aristotle and Peirce on Chance”
Part 3. The Life of the Mind
André De Tienne, “Peirce’s Definitions of the Phaneron”
Martin Lemon, “An Application of Peirce’s Valency of Relations
to the Phenomenon of Psychological Dissociation”
Gerald E. Myers, “Knowing One’s Own Mind”
Peter J. Behrens, “Peirce’s Psychophysics: Then and Now”
Antoni Gomila, “Peirce and Self-Consciousness”
Clyde Hendrick, “The Relevance of
Peirce for Psychology”
Matthias Kettner, “Peircean Benefits for Freudian Theory: The
Role of Abduction in the Psychoanalytic Enterprise”
James Jakób Liszka, “The Valuation of the Interpretant”
Alfred S. Silver, “The Riddle of Brute Experience: An Argument for a Revision of Psychoanalytic Theory Based on Peircean Phenomenology”
George W. Stickel, “Memory, Morphology, and Mathematics:
Peirce and Contemporary Neurostudies”
From Time and Chance to Consciousness: Studies in the Metaphysics of Charles Peirce, ed. Edward C. Moore and Richard Robin, 1994. [on reserve at UWG Library]
Douglas Browning, “The Limits of the Practical in Peirce’s View of Philosophical Inquiry”
H.S. Thayer, “Truth, Representation and the Real”
Mark Migotti, “Reconciling Realism and Pragmatism”
L. Nagl, “The Ambivalent Status of Reality in K.O. Apel’s “Transcendental-Pragmatic” Reconstruction of Peirce’e Semiotic”
M. Capek, “C.S. Peirce’s Different Approaches to the Problem of Time”
Jaap van Brakel, “Peirce’s Limited Belief in Chance”
Felicia E. Kruse, “Is Cosmic Evolution Semiosis?”
D. Finkelstein, “The First Flash of the Big Bang—the Evolution of Evolution”
Andrew J. Reck, “Peirce’s conception of philosophy and its place within his classification of the sciences”
Sandra B. Rosenthal, “Charles Peirce—Scientific Method and Worldly Pluralism”
P.G. Kuntz, “Doing Something for the Categories—the Cable of Categoreal Methods and the Resulting Tree of Categories”
Konstantin Kolenda, “Firstness and Contingency”
J. S. Robertson, “The Universal Peircean Categories in the English Inflectional Morphemes ‘-ing’, ‘-ed’ and ‘s’”
Richard S. Robin, “Metaphysical Reflections on Peirce on Chess”
K. Hanson, “Some Peircean Puzzles About the Self”
P. R. Masani, “Norbert Weiner—the Continuation of the Tradition of Leibniz, Vico and Peirce”