Chance, Love, and Logic : Philosophical Essays

Taylor & Francis Ltd

First published in 2000. This is volume VI in the VI-volume set titled Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy. In the essays gathered in this volume, the editors have the most developed and coherent available account of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, whom the leading thinkers in England, France, Germany, and Italy have placed in the forefront of the great seminal minds of recent times. The introduction is intended help the reader to concatenate the various lines of thought contained in these essays. > INTRODUCTION, PROEM. THE RULES OF PHILOSOPHY, PART I. CHANCE AND LOGIC (Illustrations of the Logic of Science.), 1. The Taxation of Belief, 2. How to Make Our Ideas Clear, 3. The Doctrine of Chances, 4. Tlte Probability of Induction, 5. The Order of Nature, 6. Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis, PART II. LOVE AND CHANCE, 1. The Architecture of Theories, 2. The Doctrine of Necessity Examined, 3. The Law of Mind, 4. Man's Glassy Essence, 5. Evolutionary Love,e