Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology

Analysis and Consciousness

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Phenomenology, Modern
Cover of the book Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology by Richard Kenneth Atkins, Oxford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Richard Kenneth Atkins ISBN: 9780190887193
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: October 23, 2018
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Richard Kenneth Atkins
ISBN: 9780190887193
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: October 23, 2018
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present. Yet John Locke is quick to dismiss a blind man's report that the color scarlet is like the sound of a trumpet, and Thomas Nagel similarly avers that such loose intermodal analogies are of little use in developing an objective phenomenology. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), by striking contrast, maintains rather that the blind man is correct. Peirce's reasoning stems from his phenomenology, which has received little attention as compared with his logic, pragmatism, or semiotics. Peirce argues that one can describe the similarities and differences between such experiences as seeing a scarlet red and hearing a trumpet's blare or hearing a falling pin and feeling a hot poker. Drawing on the Kantian idea that the analysis of consciousness should take as its guide formal logic, Peirce contends that we can construct a table of the elements of consciousness, just as Dmitri Mendeleev constructed a table of the chemical elements. By showing that the elements of consciousness fall into distinct classes, Peirce makes significant headway in developing the very sort of objective phenomenology which vindicates the studious blind man Locke so derides. Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology shows how his phenomenology rests on his logic, gives an account of Peirce's phenomenology as science, and then shows how his work can be used to develop an objective phenomenological vocabulary. Ultimately, Richard Kenneth Atkins shows how Peirce's pioneering and distinctive formal logic led him to a phenomenology that addresses many of the questions philosophers of mind continue to raise today.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present. Yet John Locke is quick to dismiss a blind man's report that the color scarlet is like the sound of a trumpet, and Thomas Nagel similarly avers that such loose intermodal analogies are of little use in developing an objective phenomenology. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), by striking contrast, maintains rather that the blind man is correct. Peirce's reasoning stems from his phenomenology, which has received little attention as compared with his logic, pragmatism, or semiotics. Peirce argues that one can describe the similarities and differences between such experiences as seeing a scarlet red and hearing a trumpet's blare or hearing a falling pin and feeling a hot poker. Drawing on the Kantian idea that the analysis of consciousness should take as its guide formal logic, Peirce contends that we can construct a table of the elements of consciousness, just as Dmitri Mendeleev constructed a table of the chemical elements. By showing that the elements of consciousness fall into distinct classes, Peirce makes significant headway in developing the very sort of objective phenomenology which vindicates the studious blind man Locke so derides. Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology shows how his phenomenology rests on his logic, gives an account of Peirce's phenomenology as science, and then shows how his work can be used to develop an objective phenomenological vocabulary. Ultimately, Richard Kenneth Atkins shows how Peirce's pioneering and distinctive formal logic led him to a phenomenology that addresses many of the questions philosophers of mind continue to raise today.

More books from Oxford University Press

Cover of the book The Burden of Sympathy by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book The Rights of Indians and Tribes by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Oxford Children's Classics: Party Shoes by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Critical Criminology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Language Teaching Competences by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book The League of Exotic Dancers by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Suburban Islam by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Shades of Freedom by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Sex, Power, Conflict by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book All that Makes a Man by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Minos and the Moderns by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes by Richard Kenneth Atkins
Cover of the book American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by Richard Kenneth Atkins
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy