Economy of Research

Keyword: Economy of Research


Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2018
Haack, Susan (2018). Expediting Inquiry: Peirce's Social Economy of Research
Haack begins with an exposition of Peirce's work on what he calls "the economy of research" (§1); then locates this work on the much larger map of his ideas about the factors that...
Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2018
De Waal, Cornelis (2018). The Economics of Truth: Equilibrium Theory and the Final Opinion
Shortly before writing the papers that many consider the birthplace of pragmatism, Peirce studied Antoine Cournot's application of the calculus to political economy. Though there is no explicit...
Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2018
Tuzet, Giovanni (2018). On "The Economy of Research"
Brief introduction to four papers on the economy of research published in this issue of the Transactions. The papers were originally presented in a workshop on the economy of research at Bocconi...
Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2018
Tiercelin, Claudine (2018). The Economy of Research and the Proper Defense of Knowledge and Intellectual Virtues
Nominalism seems natural for defending a decent economy of research. However such a program may and has been achieved by such a strongly realistic pragmatism as the one endorsed by Peirce: he shows...
Article in Journal | Posted 02/10/2018
Wible, James R. (2018). Game Theory, Abduction, and the Economy of Research: C. S. Peirce's Conception of Humanity's Most Economic Resource
The writings of C. S. Peirce, the American polymath philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, are explored and investigated from a hypothetical and perhaps novel perspective. The argument pursued...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/11/2014
Quote from "Lessons of the History of Science"

Dr. Ernst Mach, who has one of the best faults a philosopher can have, that of riding his horse to death, does just this with his principle of Economy in science. But of course there is a doctrine...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/11/2014
Quote from "Note on the Economy of Research"

The doctrine of Economy, in general, treats of the relations between utility and cost. That branch of it which relates to research considers the relations between utility...

Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Eighth Lecture, Abduction. MS [R] 475

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 2-92 (pagination is somewhat irregular but the text is continuous).
Volume I. Published, in part, as 5.590-...

Manuscript | Posted 19/12/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1896 [c.]). Lessons of the History of Science. MS [R] 1288

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c. 1896-3 [sup(2)G-c.1896-3], pp. 1-47.
Published, in part, as 1.43-125. Unpublished: on blocking the path of inquiry; Ockham’s maxim and...