Empiricism

Argues that Charles Peirce rejects Rene Descartes' dualism and conception of reason. Significance of David Hume's naturalist theory of the imagination; Defense of normativity in...

Published by Lexington Books, October 2016

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Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (...

Peirce's empiricism was not limited to the pragmatic maxim. Eventually, he conceived of philosophy as a set of empirical inquiries, metaphysical and normative. To support that idea, he had to...