@article{Howat2014,
author = "Andrew Howat",
title = "{Peirce on Grounding the Laws of Logic}",
year = 2014,
journal = "Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society",
volume = 50,
number = "4",
pages = "480-500",
abstract = "{This paper is a contribution to the long-standing debate over the coherence of Charles Sanders Peirce's overall system of philosophy. It approaches that issue through the lens of a contemporary debate over the notion of metaphysical grounding, or more broadly, the nature of metaphysical explanation, employing the laws of logic as a case study. The central question concerns how we can take seriously what we shall call Peirce's Rule—that nothing can be admitted to be absolutely inexplicable—without being vulnerable to a vicious regress or equally vicious circularity. I first argue that in Peirce's early work he offers a quietist conception of grounding that provides a persuasive and ground-breaking answer to this central question.1 I then raise a familiar concern, that in Peirce's later work we find hints of a more metaphysical conception of grounding that seems unable to answer that question and is thus inconsistent with his earlier work. The paper ends with a speculative interpretation of Peirce's approach to metaphysics and its possible role in grounding logical principles.}",
keywords = "Logic, Metaphysics",
language = "English",
note = "From the Commens Bibliography | \url{http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/howat-andrew-2014-peirce-grounding-laws-logic}"
}
