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Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology: Analysis and Consciousness

Autor Richard Kenneth Atkins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 ian 2019
No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present. Yet John Locke is quick to dismiss a blind man's report that the color scarlet is like the sound of a trumpet, and Thomas Nagel similarly avers that such loose intermodal analogies are of little use in developing an objective phenomenology. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), by striking contrast, maintains rather that the blind man is correct. Peirce's reasoning stems from his phenomenology, which has received little attention as compared with his logic, pragmatism, or semiotics. Peirce argues that one can describe the similarities and differences between such experiences as seeing a scarlet red and hearing a trumpet's blare or hearing a falling pin and feeling a hot poker. Drawing on the Kantian idea that the analysis of consciousness should take as its guide formal logic, Peirce contends that we can construct a table of the elements of consciousness, just as Dmitri Mendeleev constructed a table of the chemical elements. By showing that the elements of consciousness fall into distinct classes, Peirce makes significant headway in developing the very sort of objective phenomenology which vindicates the studious blind man Locke so derides. Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology shows how his phenomenology rests on his logic, gives an account of Peirce's phenomenology as science, and then shows how his work can be used to develop an objective phenomenological vocabulary. Ultimately, Richard Kenneth Atkins shows how Peirce's pioneering and distinctive formal logic led him to a phenomenology that addresses many of the questions philosophers of mind continue to raise today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190887179
ISBN-10: 0190887176
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 27
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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This book... can be warmly recommended to anyone seriously interested not only in Peirce but in theway the "Kantian insight" informs modern and contemporary philosophical traditions more widely.
The scholarship is impeccable, and Atkins' learning is immense.
I find this work to be of the highest scholarly quality. It is based on truly profound knowledge of Peirce's writings in their historical context, and the author arrives at original insights concerning the relevance of Peirce's views.
Richard Atkins' meticulously researched new book is one of the most important contributions to Peirce scholarship this decade. Through a detailed, critical account of Peirce's phenomenology, its decades-long development, and its connections to other parts of Peirce's philosophical thought, Atkins demonstrates both that phenomenology was a central area of concern for Peirce and that his work in that area provides the basis of 'an objective phenomenological vocabulary' that is relevant to present issues. Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology is a call to rethink the breadth and depth of Peirce's phenomenology, one to which all scholars of Peirce's work should attend.
Richard Atkins is one of our very best contemporary Peirce scholars. This clear and sophisticated account of Peirce's important work on phenomenology is a wonderful contribution.
Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology is clearly written, accessible, and well argued. Richard Atkins is keenly aware of the changes that took place in Peirce's phenomenological views, he positions himself well with regard to the existing secondary literature and is knowledgeable not only about the writings of Peirce that are in print, but also about the large trove of manuscripts that are still unpublished. A must-read for anyone that has an interest in phenomenology.

Notă biografică

Richard Kenneth Atkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of Peirce and the Conduct of Life (2016) and Puzzled?! An Introduction to Philosophizing (2015) and co-editor of Peirce on Perception and Reasoning: From Icons to Logic (2017). His articles have appeared in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, and Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, among other venues. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the Charles S. Peirce Society.