Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle: Grounds for Human Significance

by John K. Sheriff

Overview

"Sheriff's text moves the "guess" to a new level of
understanding, while integrating much of Peirce's philosophy, and provokes many
questions." -- Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Newletter

"The purpose of Sheriff's work is to expound
Peirce's unified theory of the universe -- from cosmology to semiotic -- and to
discuss its ramifications for how we should live. He concludes that Peirce has given
us a theory we can live with. The book makes an important contribution to philosophy
of life and to the humanities in general."Â  -- Nathan
Houser

"In clear and concise prose, Sheriff describes
Peirce's 'theory of everything,' a vision of cosmic and human meaning that offers a
positive alternative to popular pessimistic and relativistic approaches to life and
meaning." -- Peirce Project Newsletter

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253116536
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	08/22/1994
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	311 KB

About the Author

JOHN K. SHERIFF is Ernest E. Leisy Professor of English at Bethel
College. He is the author of The Fate of Meaning: Charles Peirce, Structuralism, and
Literature; The Good-Natured Man: The Evolution of a Moral Ideal, 1660--1800; and
articles on semiotics and literary theory.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Nathan
Houser

Preface

Acknowledgments

1
Peirce's
Cosmogonic Philosophy

2
Mind

3

Signs

4
Belief, Reality, and
Truth

5
Esthetics, Ethics, and
Logic

6
Philosophical
Sentimentalism

Notes

Index