Charles S. Peirce and the philosophy of science : papers from the Harvard Sesquicentennial Congress / edited by Edward C. Moore.

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1993], ©1993.

xvi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Selected papers from the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, held at Harvard University, Sept. 5, 1989

Introduction : Charles S. Peirce and the philosophy of science / Edward C. Moore -- Logic and mathematics. Peirce on the conditions of the possibility of science / C.F. Delaney -- Peirce's realistic approach to mathematics : or, can one be a realist without being a platonist? / Claudine Engel-Tiercelin -- Pierce as philosophical topologist / R. Valentine Dusek -- Peirce and propensities / James H. Fetzer -- Induction and the evolution of conceptual spaces / Peter Gärdenfors -- Abduction, justification, and realism / Anthony J. Graybosch -- Peirce and logic of logical discovery / Leila Haaparanta -- Truth, Laudan, and Peirce : a view from the trenches / Shelby D. Hunt -- Peirce and statistics / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- Peirce's view of the vague and the definite / Joseph Margolis -- The test of experiment : C.S. Peirce and E.S. Pearson / Deborah G. Mayo -- Pragmatism, abduction, and weak verification / Jeremiah McCarthy -- Peirce's theory of statistical explanation / Ilkka Niiniluoto

Peirce on problem solving / Peter Robinson -- The physical sciences. Peirce as participant in the Bohr-Einstein discussion / Peder Voetmann Christiansen -- From Peirce to Bohr : theorematic reasoning and idealization in physics / Eliseo Fernández -- The role of potentiality in Peirce's tychism and in contemporary discussions in quantum mechanics and microphysics / Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou -- Aristotle and Peirce on chance / Philip H. Hwang -- The life of the mind. Peirce's definitions of the Phaneron / André De Tienne -- An application of Peirces valency of relations to the phenomenon of psychological dissociation / Martin Lemon -- Knowing one's own mind / Gerald E. Myers -- Peirce's psychophysics : then and now / Peter J. Behrens -- Peirce and self-consciousness / Antoni Gomila -- The relevance of Peirce for psychology / Clyde Hendrick -- Peircean benefits for Freudian theory : the role of abduction in the psychoanalytic enterprise / Matthias Kettner -- The valuation of the interpretant / James Jakób Liszka

(Cont.) The riddle of Brute experience : an argument for a revision of psychoanalytic theory based on Peircean phenomenology / Alfred S. Silver -- Memory, morphology, and mathematics : Peirce and contemporary neurostudies / George W. Stickel.

Includes bibliographic references and index