Category Archives: Science

The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 1

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Being one who does not view Peirce’s work as a flickering foreshadowing of analytic philosophy, logical whatevism, or anything else you want to call it, but leans more to thinking of the latter philosophies as fumbling fallbacks losing what ground … Continue reading →

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Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Mathematics and Logic My favorite polymathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce, gave a fourfold classification of what he called “methods of fixing belief”, or “settling opinion”, most notably and seminally in his paper, “The Fixation of Belief” (1877).  … Continue reading →

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“Is it possible to advance philosophy today?”

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Stephen Rose Is it possible to advance philosophy today?  To do so, one would have to use terms that appear to have evolved in different disciplines to a point where dialog is almost impossible, even when desired. I suppose … Continue reading →

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Approaching Peirce

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

I gradually grow accustomed to the distinct possibility that there will always be different readings, and even divergent interpretations of Peirce’s writings. Some of that appears to be a two- or three-cultures issue — the readings that befit aesthetic, cultural, … Continue reading →

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The Place Where Three Wars Meet

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

One of the interesting things about the curse of our nation’s interesting times is the chance we have to observe how that triple threat — the War on Democracy, the War on Education, and the War on Science — work … Continue reading →

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