BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PEIRCE'S PUBLISHED WRITINGS
I. Writings of General Interest.[1]
A. Three papers in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 2
(1868).
1. "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for
Man," pp. 103-114.
2. "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities," pp. 140-157.
3. "Ground of Validity of the Laws of Logic," pp. 193-208.
These three papers, somewhat loosely connected, deal mainly with the philosophy of discursive thought. The first deals with our power of intuition, and holds that "every thought is a sign." The second, one of the most remarkable of Peirce's writings, contains an acute criticism of the Cartesian tradition and a noteworthy argument against the traditional emphasis on "images" in thinking. The third contains, inter alia, a refutation of Mill's indictment of the syllogism. The same volume of the Journal contains two unsigned communications on Nominalism and on the Meaning of Determined.
B. Review of Fraser's "Berkeley," in the North American Review,
Vol. 113 (1871), pp. 449-472.
This paper contains an important analysis on medieval realism, and of
Berkeley's nominalism. (A Scotist realism continues to distinguish Peirce's
work after this.)
C. "Illustrations of the Logic of Science," in Popular Science Monthly, Vols. 12-13 (1877-1878). Reprinted in Pt. I of this volume. The first and second papers were also published in the Revue Philosophique, Vols. 6-7 (1879).
D. Ten papers in the Monist, Vols. 1-3 (1891-1893), and 15-16 (1905-1906). The first five are reprinted in Pt. II of this volume.
The sixth paper, "Reply to the Necessitarians," Vol. 3, pp. 526-570, is
an answer to the criticism of the foregoing by the editor of the Monist,
Vol. 2, pp. 560ff.; cf. Vol. 3, pp. 68ff. and 571ff., and McCrie, "The Issues
of Synechism," Vol. 3, pp. 380ff.
- ↑ The following classification is arbitrary, as some of Peirce's most significant reflections occur in papers under headings II. and III. It may, however, be useful.
