Writings of Charles S. Peirce: a Chronological Edition, Volume 8: 1890–1892

Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892—a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of income meant the beginning of permanent penury and a lifelong struggle to find gainful employment. His key achievement during these years is his celebrated Monist metaphysical project, which consists of five classic articles on evolutionary cosmology. Also included are reviews and essays from The Nation in which Peirce critiques Paul Carus, William James, Auguste Comte, Cesare Lombroso, and Karl Pearson, and takes part in a famous dispute between Francis E. Abbot and Josiah Royce. Peirce's short philosophical essays, studies in non-Euclidean geometry and number theory, and his only known experiment in prose fiction complete his production during these years. Peirce's 1883-1909 contributions to the Century Dictionary form the content of volume 7 which is forthcoming.

Table of Contents:
Illustrations Preface Chronology Bibliographic Abbreviations in Editorial Matter Introduction 1. Familiar Letters about the Art of Reasoning 2. Ribot's Psychology of Attention 3. Six Lectures of Hints toward a Theory of the Universe 4. Sketch of a New Philosophy 5. [On Framing Philosophical Theories] 6. The Non-Euclidean Geometry Made Easy 7. Review of Jevons's Pure Logic 8. Review of Carus's Fundamental Problems 9. Review of Muir's The Theory of Determinants 10. Review of Fraser's Locke 11. [Notes on the First Issue of the Monist] 12. My Life 13. Note on Pythagorean Triangles 14. Hints toward the Invention of a Scale-Table 15. Logical Studies of the Theory of Numbers 16. Promptuarium of Analytical Geometry 17. Boolian Algebra 18. Boolian Alegebra. First Lection 19. Notes on the Question on the Existence of an External World 20. [Note on Kant's Refutation of Idealism] 21. [Notes on Consciousness] The Monist Metaphysical Project 22. The Architecture of Theories [Initial Version] 23. The Architecture of Theories 24. The Doctrine of Necessity Examined 25. The Law of Mind [Early Try] 26. The Law of Mind [Excursus on the Idea of Time] 27. The Law of Mind 28. [Notes for "Man's Glassy Essence"] 29. Man's Glassy Essence 30. Evolutionary Love Studies on the Algebra of the Copula 31. [Deductions from a Definition of the Copula] 32. Algebra of the Copula [Version 1] 33. Algebra of the Copula [Version 2] 34. Examination of the Copula of Inclusion 35. On the Number of Dichotomous Divisions: A Problem in Permutations 36. Methods of Investigating the Constant of Space 37. James's Psychology 38. [Morality and Church Creed] 39. Review of Spencer's Essays 40. Abbot against Royce 41. Review of Chambers's Pictorial Astronomy 42. [Lesson in Necessary Reasoning] 43. The Great Men of History 44. The Comtist Calendar 45. The Non-Euclidean Geometry 46. The Sciences in Their Order of Generality 47. The Man of Genius 48. The Periodic Law 49. Keppler 50. [Plan for a Scientific Dictionary] 51. Embroidered Thessaly 52. [Why Do We Punish Criminals?] 53. Review of Buckley's Moral Teachings of Science 54. Review of Ridgeway's The Origin of Metallic Currency 55. Review of Pearson's The Grammar of Science 56. Review of Curry's The Province of Expression Editorial Symbols Annotations Bibliography of Peirce's References Chronological Catalog, May 1890–July 1892 Supplementary Catalog Entries Essay on Editorial Theory and Method Textual Apparatus: Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Rejected Substantives, Alterations, Line-End Hyphenation Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text Index

About the Author :
The Peirce Edition Project, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University Indianapolis, aims to produce a 30-volume edition of Peirce's writings from across the humanities and sciences.

Review :
"For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years." Times Literary Supplement