Writings of Charles S. Peirce: a Chronological Edition, Volume 5: 1884-1886

"Highly recommended." —Choice " . . . an important event for the world of philosophy. For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years." —The Times Literary Supplement Volume 5 of this landmark edition covers an important transition in Peirce's life, marked by a rekindled enthusiasm for speculative philosophy. The writings include essays relating to his all-embracing theory of categories as well as papers on logic and mathematics.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction 1. Determinations of Gravity at Allegheny, Ebensburgh, and York, Pa., in 1879 and 1880 [Study of Great Men] 2. Materials for an Impressionist List of 300 Great Men 3. My list of great Men 4. [Men of Feeling, Action, Thought] 5. [Notes on Archimedes, Abel, Lagrange, and Gauss] 6. [Notes on Leonidas] 7. [Notes on Mencius] 8. [Notes on Michelangelo] 9. [Notes on Ockham and Machiavelli] 10. [Notes on Pythagoras] 11. [Notes on Rabelais] 12. Questions on Great Men [First Questionnaire] 13. Questions on Great Men [Revised Questionnaire] 14. [Remarks on Questions from the Final Questionnaire] 15. [Questionnaire Responses for Michelangelo, Hobbes, and Locke] 16. [Questionnaire Responses for Montaigne, Palissy, Machiavelli, and Lessing] 17. [Questionnaire Responses for Short List of 48 Great Men] 18. [Questionnaire Responses for Short List of 24 Great Men] 19. [Great Men: Classifications and Rankings] 20. On the Algebra of Logic: Part II 21. [Fragment on the Algebra of Logic] 22. On the Algebra of Logic (Second Paper) 23. Letter, Peirce to J.E. Hilgard 24. On Small Differences of Sensation, by C.S. Peirce and J. Jastrow 25. The Numerical Measure of the Success of Predictions 26. The "Old Stone Mill" at Newport 27. The Reciprocity Treaty with Spain 28. The Spanish Treaty Once More 29. [Testimony on the Organization of the Coast Survey] 30. On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation 31. Notes on the Algebra of Logic 32. Studies in Logical Algebra 33. An American Plato: Review of Royce's Religious Aspect of Philosophy 34. [Notes on the Categories] 35. One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature 36. [Measurement Scales and the Absolute] 37. Types of Third Degenerate in the Second Degree 38. [Clifford's The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences] 39. [Perrin's The Religion of Philosophy] 40. [Kant's Introduction to Logic] 41. [Fiske's The Idea of God] 42. On the Use of the Noddy for Measuring the Amplitude of Swaying in a Pendulum Support 43. Note on the Effect of the Flexure of a Pendulum upon its Period of Oscillation 44. Two Letters, Peirce to F.E. Abbot 45. Fundamental Properties of Number 46. Dr. F.E. Abbot's Philosophy [One, Two, Three] 47. One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories 48. One, Two, Three 49. One, Two, Three: An Evolutionist Speculation 50. [First, Second, Third] 51. Note on a Device for Abbreviating Time Reductions 52. On the Influence of a Noddy on the Period of a Pendulum 53. On the Effect of Unequal Temperature upon a Reversible Pendulum 54. Qualitative Logic 55. The Logic of Relatives: qualitative and quantitative 56. An Elementary Account of the Logic of Relatives 57. [Words in E for the Century Dictionary] 58. Letter, Peirce to A. Marquand Notes Bibliography of Peirce's References Chronological List, 1884-1886 Essay on Editorial Method Symbols Textual Apparatus Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Line-End Hyphenation, Alterations Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text Index