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Peirce is pronounced like "purse." Peirce’s primary focus in his career was on logic. Until late in his career, he considered ethics and aesthetics to be largely frivolous topics. Then around 1900 he saw them as absolutely necessary to understanding logic. His thinking was that you first need to decide what you value above all, second how one should deliberately act to best obtain what you value and third how you should best represent what you plan to act upon prior to acting in the world. The “how one should best represent” to profitably advance inquiry being logic. So Aesthetics -> Ethics -> Logic. As a sometime student of Peirce's works, I would agree with Professor Gelman's synopsis of his thought. C. S. Peirce was a fascinating thinker who combined enormous speculative range with
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Peirce is pronounced like "purse."Peirce is pronounced like "purse." Peirce’s primary focus in his career was on logic. Until late in his career, he considered ethics and aesthetics to be largely frivolous topics. Then around 1900 he saw them as absolutely necessary to understanding logic. His thinking was that you first need to decide what you value above all, second how one should deliberately act to best obtain what you value and third how you should best represent what you plan to act upon prior to acting in the world. The “how one should best represent” to profitably advance inquiry being logic. So Aesthetics -> Ethics -> Logic. As a sometime student of Peirce's works, I would agree with Professor Gelman's synopsis of his thought. C. S. Peirce was a fascinating thinker who combined enormous speculative range with
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: C. S. Peirce
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Peirce’s primary focus in his career was on logic. Until late in his career, he considered ethics and aesthetics to be largely frivolous topics. Then around 1900 he saw them as absolutely necessary to understanding logic. His thinking was that you first need to decide what you value above all, second how one should deliberately act to best obtain what you value and third how you should best represent what you plan to act upon prior to acting in the world. The “how one should best represent” to profitably advance inquiry being logic. So Aesthetics -> Ethics -> Logic.
As a sometime student of Peirce's works, I would agree with Professor Gelman's synopsis of his thought. C. S. Peirce was a fascinating thinker who combined enormous speculative range with mathematical and scientific rigor. He was a genuine "philosopher" in the Socratic sense of truth seeker. He was also careful to apply a rigorous approach to method to avoid fooling himself.
For a more complete summary, see Wikipedia. and for an even more in-depth summary see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles, Charles Sanders Peirce and Peirce's Theory of Signs.
The Charles S. Peirce site devoted to Peirce and his work. Probably the best place to start reading Peirce is with his best known articles for popular consumption, which are available there.
- "The Fixation of Belief."
- Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15.
- "How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
- Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878), 286-302.
Peirce called himself a "pragmaticist" to differentiate himself from the other American "pragmatists," William James and John Dewey.
Pragmatism is quintessentially American, although it has other representatives. American pragmatism is important in political thought since it has been concerned with the foundations of liberalism and making liberalism workable socially, politically and economically. American pragmatism is not only speculative (theoretical) but also applied.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
What you value should set out how you act and that how you represent what to possibly act upon: Aesthetics -> Ethics -> Logic.
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
What you value should set out how you act and that how you represent what to possibly act upon: Aesthetics -> Ethics -> Logic.
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University