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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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

Although Peirce does insist that there is divergence from law and increasing variety in the world, and that at no time in the finite future will there be no aberrancy from law (6.91), he also insists that growth is continually expanding into law and that if we were to reach a point in the infinitely distant future, we would have reached a state of no indeterminacy or chance but a complete reign of law (6.33).

I should emphasize at the outset that although I begin with Peirce and shall refer to what I understand to be his view, the discussion will not be restricted to a straightforward exposition.

It will be helpful to look briefly at ways in which Peirce anticipated the need for agape as a condition in evolution.

Peirce's notion of agape offers a conceptual frame for articulating, if not resolving, this paradox at the same time that it extends his thesis of spontaneity.

In 1925 he was assigned the task of editing the mostly unpublished philosophical papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (donated to Harvard by Peirce's widow in 1914 at the urging of Josiah Royce).

Hilary Putnam has offered an interesting analysis of Peirce's treatment of infinitesimals, and his analysis is suggestive as a way to understand how a continuum can break at loci that are points of division as infinitesimal intervals.

Bergson's approach calls attention to an unavoidable disunity in its stress on the three loci of tension and thus it is less unified initially than Peirce's, at least with respect to the continuity between the poles of the tension.

At several points Hartshorne claims that his view is in essentials that of Peirce and Whitehead.

What one needs is an all - inclusive logic — a «grand logic,» in Peirce's phrase — in which the positive achievements of these various alternative logics can be accommodated without having to pay the high, inflationary prices they usually demand: excessive ontic commitment and involvement, «fuzzy» semantics, excessive and perhaps unsound or at least dubious axioms and rules, and failure to achieve the kind of «maximum logical candor» that should be aimed at.

Peirce strongly hints at its falsity, as I take Whitehead to do.

To establish his third point Peirce invokes the pragmatic shift of concern from origins to consequences and argues that knowledge is justified not because it has an absolute foundation but because it is a self - correcting enterprise which can put any claim in jeopardy though not all at once.

Now the obvious Bergsonian objection to this whole line of reasoning is that Peirce's arguments are telling only against the claim to have an intuitive knowledge which is at the same time conceptual.

Peirce hesitatingly and inconclusively gave hints in the right direction, as did some of my teachers at Harvard, so that when I came to know Whitehead and his metaphysical writings I was ready to utilize the advances he had made in this tradition, with some of which he was not himself familiar.

Here I agree with Bergson and also W. P. Montague, as well as Whitehead, and, in one essay at least, Peirce.

His greatest scholarly achievement at that time was his editing, together with Paul Weiss, of the collected works of Peirce.

He did not know that Peirce, Willard Gibbs, and Clerk Maxwell were, at about that time, coming to the conviction that strict determinism was not necessary, even to classical physics.

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I am currently enrolled at Peirce College.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

Alex Russell, Cynthia Preston, Judy Greer, Julianne Moore, Kimberly Peirce, Chloe Grace Moretz and Portia Doubleday - «Carrie» Los Angeles Premiere Held at The ArcLight Hollywood - Hollywood, California, United States - Tuesday 8th October 2013 (8 Pictures)

«Boys Don't Cry» director Kimberly Peirce came on board in 2017 to helm «This Is Jane,» set up at John Lesher's Le Grisbi Productions.

Moretz has often been cast as an eccentric (the obscenity - spewing Hit Girl in Kick - Ass, the lonely little vampire in Let Me In, a regally spoiled brat in Dark Shadows, the titular outcast in Kimberly Peirce's Carrie remake); she's good at playing against her own polished wholesomeness.

While delivering a rollicking and racy speech about Varda's work, director's branch governor Kimberly Peirce gave the room a chance, at least, to laugh at the hypocrisy of the business when it comes to issues of gender, sexuality and power.

Few filmmakers have captured the torment of wanting acceptance in this world, while at the same time being labelled an outcast better than Kimberly Peirce.

The agency, which has installed and will install rooftop PV systems on several of its facilities, said it is also considering the feasibility of floating solar panels deployment at Tengeh and Upper Peirce Reservoirs.

As 2017 draws to a close, Mike Peirce, Corporate Partnerships Director at The Climate Group reflects on growing corporate action on energy and climate change — and looks ahead to 2018.

Tara Mulcair is a trainee solicitor at Birnberg Peirce.

Matt Foot, solicitor at Birnberg Peirce, won Legal Champion for his campaign against legal aid cuts through the Justice Alliance.

Patrick Roche is one of 17 Garden Court Chambers barristers instructed by Marcia Willis Stewart of Birnberg Peirce & Partners to represent 77 families at the Hillsborough Inquest.

Looking at Trinity College Dublin again, O'Mahony, Tewari and Peirce gained attention after publishing extensive studies on the virtual currency space, including a book called «Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce.»

«We look at this as that other counties and thousands of children, born and yet to be born, are looking at us to lead the way, to do a good job, to prove that this really works, that it's worth the investment of taxpayer dollars in the long run to have high quality early learning opportunities for all children, especially those from low - income families,» says John Peirce, a consultant to the United Way of Allen County for Early Childhood Initiatives.