Sentences with phrase «birnberg peirce»

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In January, Commissioners Hester M. Peirce and Robert J. Jackson Jr., both nominees of President Donald J. Trump, joined SEC commissioners Kara Stein and Michael Piwowar, along with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

It is obvious that Hartshorne later rejected this very peculiar view, probably under the influence of Peirce's philosophy as well as neopositivistic and analytical standards.

Later on, Whitehead and Peirce, and eventually Buddhism, made the point even clearer.

Later the chief reinforcement and generalization of the same position was Peirce's «Doctrine of Necessity Examined.»

Cf. Charles S. Peirce, Collected Papers (Harvard University Press, 1931 - 1935), Vol.

But... the infinite regress in question is an example of the «non-vicious» type of regress, since it concerns possibilities, and these not (on one view of potentiality) as a definite multitude, whose number is infinite, but as a continuum, which in the words of Peirce is «beyond all multitude,» as God was formerly described as being; and indeed, as we shall see, the continuum of possibilities is one aspect of God which may be truly so described.

All of these motifs are united in Whitehead, and all but the clear rejection of substance as relevant to ethics and as implying the primacy of unit - events rather than unit - things or persons, were in Peirce.

It is not even true that the omniscient must know details of the future, unless it can be proved, against Bergson, Whitehead, Peirce, James, and many others, that the future has any details to know.3 (Of course it will be detailed, but this does not imply that it has detailed will - be's as parts of itself now...)

After these influences I was simultaneously exposed, during my second and last stay in an official capacity at Harvard, from 1925 to 1928, to the writings of Peirce and the writings and presence of Whitehead.

This was measured praise since, as Morris knew, most of the great idealists were dead, including Peirce and Whitehead.

[11] For the pragmatic complementarity of law and freedom (spontaneity) cf. C. Peirce,; «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, ed.

I then had read nothing of Peirce and had never seen Whitehead or read any of his metaphysical works.

A brief exploration of Peirce's use of continuity in his account of individual existence as well as a review of this account in the light of Professor Hartshorne's criticisms.

After joining the faculty in philosophy at Harvard University in 1925, where he began editing the collected papers of C. S. Peirce, Charles Hartshorne also served as an assistant to Alfred North Whitehead.

William James, Charles Peirce, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead have much in common with the process metaphysicians.

35 - 64), and V Potter, S.J., Charles S. Peirce on Norms and Ideals (Worcester: U. of Massachusetts, 1967), esp.

Accordingly, his intellectual adventure has been, above all, one of philosophical construction, appropriating Whitehead and Peirce especially for his own metaphysical statement.

That was the side Peirce and Whitehead were uniquely equipped to illuminate.

According to Neville, Peirce is correct in holding that «the only thing that does not need an explanation is pure chaos»; consequently order and first principles are not self - explanatory but need explanation (p. 59f).

I noticed some of the men talking about the Hijab, I see they are sporting tatoos and one woman has peircings.

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (1996): 542 - 62.

As a student at Harvard, before I had met Whitehead or read Peirce, I wrote a paper called «The Self its own Maker.»

We might suppose that James and Dewey are willing to try their luck at wading across the thing, while Peirce is busily building a ferry out of the somewhat flimsy materials of language.

The latter is a tangled problem at best, but it is clear that among the important founders of the process perspective — specifically I mean James, Peirce, Bergson, Whitehead, Dewey, and Hartshorne — it is Hartshorne's work which comes closest to being a kind of personalism.1 Whitehead explicitly sets aside the personalist perspective in Religion in the Making, considering its claims beyond the possibility of being established.2 On the other side, a number of personalists have been sympathetic to process thought, and Brightman is surely principal among them.3 Here I will not investigate the question of whether personalism in general, or even the idealistic type, is reconcilable with process thought.

And those more recent thinkers who are most like Leibniz in comprehensive knowledge (Peirce and Whitehead being almost unique in this respect) reject any such jumble of notions as automatic yet spiritual realities.

Fortunately quantum physics has put this doctrine in doubt and some scientists and philosophers of science had already rejected it long before quantum physics, including the great Clerk Maxwell, and the great American philosopher who was also physicist, Charles Peirce.

The overall situation in matters of abstraction is triadic (to use the term favored by C. S. Peirce).

All real questions, as Peirce said, are questions of degree, on this view» (Letter of July 19, 1935).

Weiss, Paul, «Biography of Charles Sanders Peirce,» Perspectives on Peirce: Critical Essays on Charles Sanders Peirce, ed.

I will use the generic term «sign» from the semiotic tradition revived by Charles Peirce at the end of the nineteenth century to stand for any object of interpretation.

Smith, John E., «Religion and Theology in Peirce,» Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, ed.

Does not Peirce's argument for the improbability of an exact zero of a property found in highly variable degrees, and in highly variable extents of space, hold against the exact truth of Euclidian geometry?

Lowe, Victor, «Peirce and Whitehead as Metaphysicians,» Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Second Series, ed.

Peirce had a mixture of good and not at all good in both his marriages.

In this Bibliography references to Charles Hartshorne simply as Editor of the Peirce papers have been omitted.

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

Peirce argued that, since zero magnitude is one of an infinity of possible magnitudes, all except one greater than zero but too small for us to definitely detect in nature, the improbability of the zero size being the exact truth is infinite.

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (Winter 1985): 40 - 48.

In any case, whatever the causes, Whitehead and Santayana form with James, Josiah Royce, C.A. Strong, C.S. Peirce, Charles Hartshorne and others a distinctive philosophical grouping with common concerns distinct from those of British and European philosophers.

Cohen, Morris R., «The Founder of Pragmatism»: Review of Collected Papers of C. S. Peirce (hereafter CPCSP), Vols.

Weiss, Paul, «Charles S. Peirce, Philosopher,» Perspectives on Peirce: Critical Essays on Charles Sanders Peirce, ed.

When Peirce, a theist virtually all his life, and an evolutionist virtually all his adult life, was fourteen, he wrote, «Love is the foundation of everything desirable or good.»

A contrasting difference is that Peirce had a powerful mathematician as father who tutored him in that subject, helped him in other ways, but was almost brutally unkind at times and a possible cause of a psychosomatic illness in his son.

Christopher, Thomas W., Introduction to «Charles Sanders Peirce: A Symposium,» Journal of Public Law 7, 1 (Spring, 1958), 1.

The Buddhists held and hold it, at least one sect of Hinduism ditto, Peirce, perhaps the greatest cognitive genius this country ever had, and the Anglo - American (as I call him), A. N. Whitehead held it, as did Haeberlin, a Swiss philosopher and my best psychology teacher at Harvard, Leonard Troland.

Esposito, Joseph L., «Synechism, Socialism, and Cybernetics,» Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 9, 2 (Spring, 1973), 69, 77n9.