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09/02/2020 Kiryushchenko, Vitaly (2019). Semantic Contents and Pragmatic Perspectives: The Social and the Real in Brandom and Peirce Article in Journal preview
09/02/2020 Gupta, Anoop (2019). Revising the Indispensability Argument Article in Journal preview
09/02/2020 Šedivcová, Karolina (2019). Prolegomena to a Prehistory of Pragmatism Article in Journal preview
09/02/2020 Viola, Tullio (2019). Articulate Reason and Its Elusive Background: Notes on Josiah Royce’s Late Reading of Peirce Article in Journal preview
13/12/2019 Hargraves, Orin (2019). The Century Dictionary Definitions of Charles Sanders Peirce Article in Journal preview
19/11/2019 Sørensen, Bent, Thellefsen, Torkild L. (2010). The Normative Sciences, the Sign Universe, Self-control and Rationality – According to Peirce Article in Journal preview
19/11/2019 Sørensen, Bent, Thellefsen, Torkild, Thellefsen, Martin (2016). The Meaning Creation Process, Information, Emotion, Knowledge Article in Journal preview
19/11/2019 Sørensen, Bent, Thellefsen, Torkild, Brier, Søren (2018). Man is a Bundle of Habits in a Universe with an Inherent Tendency to Habit Formation Article in Journal preview
19/11/2019 Sørensen, Bent, Thellefsen, Torkild, Thellefsen, Martin, Dewi, Amalia N. (2019). Charles S. Peirce`s Sign Typology of 1903 and the Semeiotic of Universe, Man, and Culture Article in Journal preview
19/11/2019 Sørensen, Bent, Thellefsen, Torkild, Thellefsen, Martin (2019). A Peircean Semiotics of Technological Artefacts. In: The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics Article in Edited Collection preview
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Some Wit, Wisdom & Bewilderment

A subtle and almost ineradicable narrowness in the conception of Normative Science runs through almost all modern philosophy in making it relate exclusively to the human mind. The beautiful is conceived to be relative to human taste, right and wrong concern human conduct alone, logic deals with human reasoning. Now in the truest sense these sciences certainly are indeed sciences of mind. Only, modern philosophy has never been able quite to shake off the Cartesian idea of the mind, as something that "resides" ‒ such is the term ‒ in the pineal gland. Everybody laughs at this nowadays, and yet everybody continues to think of mind in this same general way, as something within this person or that, belonging to him and correlative to the real world. A whole course of lectures would be required to expose this error.
Lectures on Pragmatism, 1903