Thanks Ruchira -- got it just now -- looks excellent. And $9.99 on Kindle. To Gary's note. We cannot have a binary solution pitting science against the world. To have the spiritual movement -- it is in fact underway and perhaps already won -- we need to vacate the dogmatism of science when it comes to accepting a mechanistic view of things -- what I think CSP skewered as necessitarian.
amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Ruchira Datta <[email protected]> wrote: > No one has mentioned Louis Menand's *The Metaphysical Club*? > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Janos, list, >> >> Not on line as far as I know, but of course there's Brent's biography >> (also in a revised version) which some seem to love and others (including >> me and the late Joe Ransdell) do not, finding it not at all well-balanced >> in terms of portraying Peirce's character. For example, there are >> disproportionately more quotations from Peirce's enemies than from his >> friends in it, while there are, for example, many letters (from students, >> family, and friends) which paint a very different picture of Peirce than >> Brent's. In my opinion, unfortunately, the tone and conclusions of that >> biography have come to be accepted all too generally in the literature as >> the "last word" re: Peirce's personal life and character. As I see it, a >> complete, well-balanced biography has yet to be written. >> >> Ken Ketner was well qualified to write a definitive biography but instead >> decided to cast his projected 3 volume biography, *His Glass Essence: An >> Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce*, as a literary fantasy with >> non-historical characters, etc. included, this approach no doubt influenced >> by his friend, the author, Walker Percy (Ketner and Lane's correspondence, >> published as *A Thief of Peirce*, is quite interesting and valuable, >> esp. Ketner's appendices on valental matters). There are some intriguing >> anectoes, unfamiliar to me before reading them, in Ketner's "autobiography" >> (the other two volumes unlikely ever to be written), but you have to work >> hard to find them. >> >> At the conclusion of the Peirce Centennial a few years back at a church >> in UMass, Lowell, Nathan Houser gave a plenary talk which was essentially a >> brief biography of Peirce with several anecdotes I hadn't previously heard. >> However, I don't believe that that talk was ever published; but I'll ask >> him off-list about it. >> >> So, you're correct, I believe: there seems not to be a great deal of >> anecdotal information on Peirce available on line. I would be delighted if >> others here could point to any on line resources with anecdotes of Peirce's >> personal life and character, material which apparently neither of us were >> yet able to discover, Janos. >> >> Best, >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> >> *Gary Richmond* >> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* >> *Communication Studies* >> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* >> *718 482-5690* >> >> On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 8:14 AM, Janos Sarbo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> List, >>> >>> There are various sources on internet about Peirce's life, but very few >>> information about him as a person, about his character, etc. >>> >>> Is anybody familiar with Peirce anecdotes? >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Janos Sarbo >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------- >>> PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON >>> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to >>> [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to >>> PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe >>> PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at >>> http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ----------------------------- >> PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON >> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to >> [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L >> but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the >> BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce >> -l/peirce-l.htm . >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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