Normative Science

Keyword: Normative Science


Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/03/2018
Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

Normative science considers the phenomenon only so far as it can be controlled, compares purpose with performance, and ascertains the general principles of the relation...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/09/2017
Quote from "Adirondack Summer School Lectures"

The normative sciences are wholly said to be esthetics, ethics, and logic; but Herbart and others put esthetics & ethics together, perhaps rightly. They are all largely & I may say...

Article in Journal | Posted 17/08/2017
Liszka, James J. (2014). Peirce's Idea of Ethics as a Normative Science
Peirce proposed the idea of a normative science. The three disciplines of logic, ethics, and esthetics would each study a kind of good: good reasoning, good conduct, and good ends. By calling them...
Article in Journal | Posted 17/04/2017
Ibri, Ivo A. (2016). Linking the Aesthetic and the Normative in Peirce's Pragmaticism: A Heuristic Sketch
This essay conjectures on the modes of connection between the Peirce's Normative Science of Aesthetics and his mature pragmatism. Starting with some general comments on Peirce's philosophy...
Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Smyth, Richard A. (2002). Peirce's Normative Science Revisited
Highlights the issues discussed by Richard Robin in his essay on Charles Peirce and normative science. Distinction between the types of knowledge; Information on the Kantian common sense.
Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/08/2016
Quote from "Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; Wherein logic is conceived as Semeiotic"

Normative science is that science which considers any kind of excellence, and endeavors to formulate the conditions under which an object would possess that...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/03/2016
Quote from "Fragments [R]"

A normative science may be defined as the theory of the facultative conditions under which a desirable result may be brought about. It necessarily has practical...

Article in Journal | Posted 05/01/2016
Boero, Hedy (2014). Towards the silvery peak: some keys to the evolution of Peirce’s Ethics
Although it may seem a simple and obvious notion, Peirce’s conception of ethics has a complexity and richness which grew over the course of his entire intellectual life. The aim of this paper is to...
Article in Journal | Posted 06/10/2015
Stango, Marco (2015). The Pragmatic Maxim and the Normative Sciences: Peirces Problematical 'Fourth' Grade of Clarity
Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/09/2015
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critic"

The designation “normative science” [means] a science of what ought to be

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/05/2015
Quote from "Quest of Quest"

The Normative Sciences, Esthetics, Ethics, and Logic, […] are confined respectively to ascertaining how Feeling, Conduct, and Thought ought to be controlled supposing them to be subject in a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/05/2015
Quote from "The Logic Notebook"

The consideration of the general way in which the mind, if it is to act deliberately and under self-control, must respond to the blows of experience […] gives ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/05/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

Philosophy has three grand divisions. [—] The second grand division is Normative Science, which investigates the universal and necessary laws of the relation of Phenomena...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/05/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter IV. Ethics"

It is pretty generally admitted that logic is a normative science, that is to say, it not only lays down rules which ought to be, but need not be followed; but it...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/05/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)"

A normative science is one which studies what ought to be. How then does it differ from engineering, medicine, or any other practical science? If, however, logic,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/05/2015
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

Philosophy is divided into (a) Phenomenology; (b) Normative Science; (c) Metaphysics.

Phenomenology ascertains and studies the kinds of elements universally...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/05/2015
Quote from "A Suggested Classification of the Sciences"

Normative Science […] distinguishes the good and bad

Manuscript | Posted 04/05/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). A Suggested Classification of the Sciences. MS [R] 1339

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-13; 1-6.
Some of the ways in which CSP’s scheme differs from other schemes. CSP’s point of departure is Comte. Division of science...

Monograph | Posted 23/12/2014
Potter, Vincent G. (1996). Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives
Article in Journal | Posted 25/11/2014
Conway, Charles G. (2008). The Normative Sciences at Work and Play
The article focuses on Charles Sanders Peirce's use of Normative Science into three junctures associated with his Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (NARG). It includes the...

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