Ethics

Keyword: Ethics


Article in Journal | Posted 29/10/2014
Massecar, Aaron (2014). Peirce, Moral Cognitivism, and the Development of Character
Proponents of moral cognitivism have recently looked to Peirce in order to supplement their position. That work focuses on what Peirce has to say about truth and inquiry and how these notions can...
Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 453

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-37.
Science hampered by the false notion that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning. This notion related to...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 451

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-21.
Refutation of the view that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning or, for that matter, good and bad...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 448

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS,. notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 1-48.
Published as 1.591-610, with omissions. Unpublished: Present day science suffers from a malady whose source is an...

News | Posted 19/07/2013
Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Moral Objectivity

The annual meeting of the the Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association.

Final call for abstracts:

The 2013 Meeting of the Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association (ARPA) will be...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/04/2013
Quote from "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic"

Normative science has three widely separated divisions: i. Esthetics; ii. Ethics; iii. Logic.

Ethics, or the science of right and wrong, must appeal to Esthetics...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I"

…it is generally said that the three normative sciences are logic, ethics, and esthetics, being the three doctrines that distinguish good and bad; Logic in regard to representations of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/04/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

Supposing, however, that normative science divides into esthetics, ethics, and logic, then it is easily perceived, from my standpoint, that this division is governed by the three categories....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/02/2013
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Philosophy and the Conduct of Life"

Philosophy seems to consist of two parts, Logic and Metaphysics. I exclude Ethics, for two reasons. In the first place, as the science of the end and aim of life, [ethics] seems to be exclusively...

Manuscript | Posted 04/02/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On Quantity, with special reference to Collectional and Mathematical Infinity. MS [R] 15

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-29, incomplete.
Same questions raised as in MS. 14. “Mathematics” defined, with extended comments on the divisions of the...

News | Posted 24/08/2012
Peirce and Value Theory

The Charles S. Peirce Society sponsors a session at this year’s meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association

Topic: Peirce and Value Theory
Chair: Robert...

News | Posted 08/08/2012
The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce

This volume explores the three normative sciences that Peirce distinguished (aesthetics, ethics, and logic) and their relation to phenomenology and metaphysics. The essays approach this topic from...

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