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Download or read book The Essential Peirce Volume 1 written by Charles Sanders Peirce and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. Volume 1 presents twenty-five key texts, chronologically arranged, beginning with Peirce's 'On a New List of Categories' of 1867, a highly regarded alternative alternative to Kantian philosophy, and ending with the first sustained and systematic presentation of his evolutionary metaphysics in the Monist Metaphysical Series of 1891-1893.

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