Chronology / xi

Preface / xiii

Introduction by Nathan Houser / xix


Contents

1. Immortality in the Light of Synechism (1893) 1

2. What Is a Sign? (1894) 4

3. Of Reasoning in General (1895) 11

4. Philosophy and the Conduct of Life (1898) 27

5. The First Rule of Logic (1898) 42

6. Pearson's Grammar of Science (1901) 57

7. Laws of Nature (1901) 67

8. On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents, Especially from Testimonies (1901) 75

9. On Science and Natural Classes (1902) 115



Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism (1903)

10. The Maxim of Pragmatism (Lecture I) 133

11. On Phenomenology (Lecture II) 145

12. The Categories Defended (Lecture III) 160

13. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics (Lecture IV) 179

14. The Three Normative Sciences (Lecture V) 196

15. The Nature of Meaning (Lecture VI) 208

16. Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction (Lecture VII) 226


Lowell Lectures on Logic

17. What Makes a Reasoning Sound? (1903) 242



A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic (1903)

18. An Outline Classification of the Sciences 258

19. The Ethics of Terminology 263

20. Sundry Logical Conceptions 267

21. Nomenclature and Divisions of Triadic Relations, as Far as They Are Determined 289

22. New Elements (KainÅ stoixeia) (1904) 300

23. Ideas, Stray or Stolen, about Scientific Writing (1904) 325


Pragmaticism (1905-07)

24. What Pragmatism Is (1905) 331

25. Issues of Pragmaticism (1905) 346

26. The Basis of Pragmaticism in Phaneroscopy (1906) 360

27. The Basis of Pragmaticism in the Normative Sciences (1906) 371

28. Pragmatism (1907) 398

29. A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908) 434

30. A Sketch of Logical Critics (1911) 451

31. An Essay toward Reasoning in Security and Uberty (1913) 463



Appendix: Semiotics from Late Correspondence

32. Excerpts from Letters to Lady Welby (1904-08) 477

33. Excerpts from Letters to William James (1909) 492


Notes / 503

Index / 557


Copyright of the Peirce Edition Project 1998