Peirce vs Descartes: experience and metaphysics
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent27.02.085Keywords:
Metaphysics, C. S. Peirce, Descartes, Experience, Pragmatism.Abstract
The article analyzes understanding of metaphysics in C.S.Peirce’s philosophy of Pragmatism and describes four main meanings of its basic concept of experience. Peirce’s criticism against Descartes is treated from the point of contemporary history of philosophy that strives for detailed reconstruction of terminological resources of past teachings. The author proves that, despite Peirce’s deep knowledge of the texts of Descartes, his interpretation of Cartesian philosophy is based on unremovable retrospective modernization of the system of concepts as used by the French philosopher. Peirce treats Descartes’ concepts of experience, metaphysics, clarity, consciousness, subject as imperfect versions of similar concepts in the scientific philosophy of the late 19th century.References
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Descartes, R. (1989-1994). Works in 2 vol. [In Russian]. Moscow: Mysl.
Friedman, L. (1999). Doubt & Inquiry: Peirce and Descartes Revisited. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 35(4), 724-746.
Haack, S. (1982). Descartes, Peirce and the Cognitive Community. The Monist, 65(2), 156-181. https://doi.org/10.5840/monist198265214
Houser, N., & Kloesel, C. (Eds.). (1992). The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. 1 (1867-1893). Bloomington: Indiana UP.
Kant, I. (1994). Critique of Pure Reason. [In Russian]. Moscow: Mysl.
Kebuladze, V. (2011). Phenomenology of experience. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Duh i Litera.
Khoma, O. I. (2011). Philosophical Cultures: Indulgence, Tolerance and Recognition. [In Ukrainian]. Philosophical Thought, 4, 76-89.
Khoma, O. I. (2012). Descartes and Pascal: The Way to Philosophy on the Background of Grand Siècle. [In Ukrainian]. Philosophical Thought, 6, 19-38.
Minakov, M. A. (2007). History of the concept of experience. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: PARAPAN.
Misak, Ch. J. (Ed.). (2006). Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), The Cambridge Companion to Peirce (pp. 1-26). Cambridge, U.K., & New York: Cambridge UP.
Panych, O. O. (2007). Inquiries on the Problem ofScepticism in British-American Epistemology. Part one: British Modern Philosophy (Hobbes, Locke, Barkley, Hume, Reed). [In Ukrainian]. Donetsk: DonNU.
Panych, O. O. (2009a). History, concept, experience: three components, three problems. Review of the book: M. A. Minakov. History of the concept of experience. [In Ukrainian]. Philosophical Thought, 6, 121-131.
Panych, O. O. (2009b). About the problem of the translation of "belief" in Ukrainian. [In Ukrainian]. In A. Vasilchenko et al. (Eds.), Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Vol. 1; pp. 235-236). Kyiv: Duh i Litera.
Peirce, C. S. (1998). The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. 2 (1893-1913). Bloomington: Indiana UP.
Peirce, C. S. (2000a). Selected philosophical works. [In Russian]. Moscow: Logos.
Peirce, C. S. (2000b). The principles of pragmatism (Vol. 1). [In Russian]. St. Petersburg: Lab. of the metaph. stud. of St. Petersburg State University's philos. faculty, & Aleteya.
Peirce, C. S. (2000c). The principles of pragmatism. Vol. 2: Logical foundations of the theory of signs. [In Russian]. St. Petersburg: Lab. of the metaph. stud. of St. Petersburg State University's philos. faculty, & Aleteya.
Reynolds, A. (2002). Peirce's scientific metaphysics: the philosophy of chance, law, and evolution. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP.
Sidorov, I. N. (1989). Philosophy of action in the USA: from Emerson to Dewey. [In Russian]. Leningrad: Leningrad State University.
Skagestad, P. (2006). Peirce's Semeiotic Model of the Mind. In Ch. J. Misak (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Peirce (pp. 241-256). Cambridge, U.K., & New York: Cambridge UP.
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Ratnikova, O. (2012). Peirce vs Descartes: experience and metaphysics. Sententiae, 27(2), 85–96. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent27.02.085
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