Scholastic Realism: A Key to Understanding Peirce's Philosophy

The aim of this work is to respond to the following question: how did Charles Sanders Peirce find unity for his pragmatist philosophy through the formulation of Scholastic Realism? The author proposes the said doctrine to be a reading guide, leading us through the different stages of Peirce's work as a philosopher.

Autorentext

Paniel Reyes Cárdenas is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UPAEP (People s Autonomous University of Puebla State, Mexico), after a spell as postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. He obtained his PhD at the University of Sheffield working on Peirce s pragmatism and the metaphysics of Scholastic Realism and the philosophy of mathematics derived from it. His interests include the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy of time, modality, philosophy of language, care ethics and virtue epistemology. His work finds unity in the pragmatist tradition initiated by the American polymath Charles S. Peirce. The author is also interested in philosophy of religion and particularly in Kierkegaard s works. In addition, he founded the Mexican Society for Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science

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CONTENTS: Why Should We Concern Ourselves with the Problem of Universals? Peirce's Early Scholastic Realism and its Development A Pragmatic Account of Reality: Peirce's Ideas about Universals in the 1870s Illustrations on the Logic of Science Series of Papers The Development of Peirce's Realism: Categories and Evolutionary Cosmology from the 1880s to the 1890s The Metaphysics of Continuity: Peirce's Scholastic Realism Understood as Synechism Scholastic Realism, Modes of Being, and the Architectonic System.