The book is a collection of chapters on the work of Charles S. Peirce that grew out of conversations between the authors over the last decade and a half. The chapters focus primarily on Peirce’s consideration of realism and idealism as philosophical outlooks. Some deal directly with Peirce’s accounts of realism and idealism; others look to the consequences of these accounts for other features of Peirce’s overall philosophical system.

Table of Contents:

CONVERSATION I : PRAGMATISM, IDEALISM, REALISM

1. Peirce on Berkeley’s Nominalistic Platonism / DOUG ANDERSON AND PETER GROFF
2. Who’s a Pragmatist: Royce, Dewey, and Peirce at the Turn of the Century / DOUG ANDERSON
3. Two Peircean Realisms: Some Comments on Margolis / CARL R. HAUSMAN AND DOUG ANDERSON
4. The Degeneration of Pragmatism: Peirce, Dewey, Rorty / DOUG ANDERSON

CONVERSATION II: PERCEPTION AND INQUIRY

5. Peirce’s Dynamical Object: Realism as Process Philosophy / CARL R. HAUSMAN
6. Another Radical Empiricism: Peirce 1903 / DOUG ANDERSON
7. Peirce on Interpretation / CARL R. HAUSMAN
8. Peirce and Pearson: The Aims of Inquiry / DOUG ANDERSON AND MICHAEL J. ROVINE

CONVERSATION III: CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS

9. The Pragmatic Importance of Peirce’s Religious Writings / DOUG ANDERSON
10. Realism and Idealism in Peirce’s Cosmogony / DOUG ANDERSON
11. Love of Nature: The Generality of Peircean Concern / DOUG ANDERSON
12. Developmental Theism: A Peircean Response to Fundamentalism / DOUG ANDERSON

ADDENDUM Peirce’s Coefficient of the Science of the Method: An Early Form of the Correlation Coefficient / MICHAEL J. ROVINE AND DOUG ANDERSON