Bernstein, Richard J., ed. Perspectives on Peirce: Critical Essays on Charles Sanders Peirce. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.

Abstract

Although Charles Sanders Peirce is now being recognized as America's most original philosopher, and perhaps its greatest, he is little known and understood. The five contributors to the present volume have sought to explain Peirce each in his own distinctive way. Rulon Wells discusses Peirce as an American; Norwood Hanson sees Peirce in the light of his own investigations of the "logic of discovery"; Richard Bernstein argues that that the concepts of action, conduct, and self-control are systematically related; John Smith scrutinizes the role of the community in Peirce's philosophy; and Paul Weiss provides a comprehensive overview of Peirce's strengths and weaknesses. Collectively, the essays - based on lectures delivered at Yale to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Peirce's death - afford a series of much-needed perspectives on the man who was a practicing scientist as well as a student of logic, medieval philosophy, and the history of science.