内容摘要 查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔士(1839-1914),美国哲学家、物理学家、数学家,实用主义的奠基人。尽管他在哲学史上很重要,但对他的思想还没有一个统一的表述。随着这本书的出版,读者终于得到了这位哲学家唯一已知的、完整的、连贯的关于他自己工作的描述。《推理和事物的逻辑》zui初是在1898年的剑桥会议上发表的,这本书是对皮尔士成熟思想zui容易理解、zui全面的介绍,可以在一本书中找到。 皮尔士首先解释了哲学的本质,接着阐述了他的主张,即数学为我们的逻辑和形而上学提供了基础。我们在这里发现,自19世纪60年代以来,皮尔斯的思想中有一个zui清晰的表述,即三种推理方式的区别:归纳法、演绎法和回溯法。接着介绍皮尔斯的主要逻辑学说,以及他提出的科学分类、范畴理论和科学理论的尝试。总之,从“推理”到“事物的逻辑”,皮尔斯呼吁用一种进化的宇宙学来解释规律的现实,并描述了他在发展宇宙学时所使用的各种推理。 在他的朋友威廉·詹姆斯的敦促下,皮尔斯在这些演讲中做出了非同寻常的努力,用能被一般听众理解的术语——那些在逻辑和哲学方面没有受过高级训练的听众——来表达他的观点。肯尼斯·凯特纳(Kenneth Ketner)和希拉里·普特曼(Hilary Putman)的介绍性材料增加了这本书的可读性。因此,这本书将成为皮尔斯专家圈子之外的读者的一个有价值的来源。 Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was an American philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and the founder of pragmatism. Despite his importance in the history of philosophy, a unified statement of his thought has been unavailable. With this publication, readers at long last are offered the philosopher’s only known, complete, and coherent account of his own work. Originally delivered as the Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898, Reasoning and the Logic of Things is the most accessible and thorough introduction to Peirce’s mature thought to be found within the compass of a single book. Beginning with an explanation of the nature of philosophy, Peirce proceeds to illustrate his claim that mathematics provides the foundation of our logic and metaphysics. We find here the clearest formulation of an idea present in Peirce’s thought since the 1860s, the distinction between three kinds of reasoning: induction, deduction, and retroduction. Then follows an introduction to Peirce’s chief logical doctrines, as well as his attempts to provide a classification of the sciences, a theory of categories, and a theory of science. In conclusion, turning from “reasoning” to the “logic of things,” Peirce called for an evolutionary cosmology to explain the reality of laws and described the kinds of reasoning he employed in developing this cosmology. At the urging of his friend William James, Peirce made an uncharacteristic effort in these lectures to present his ideas in terms intelligible to a general audience—those without advanced training in logic and philosophy. The introductory materials by Kenneth Ketner and Hilary Putman add to the volume’s lucidity. Consequently, this book will be a valuable source for readers outside of the circle of Peirce specialists.
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