Jon, This is certainly a major accomplishment and contribution to the Peirce literature. Congratulations!
Of course, along with you I hope that there will in fact be a lively discussion of your paper. I myself am eager to reread it and, perhaps, especially to discuss with you and others, among many other matters, the paradox mentioned near the conclusion of your abstract, that "time must return into itself even if events are limited to only a portion of it, a paradox that is resolved with the aid of projective geometry." But there is so much else of interest in your paper that I should probably be patient and begin again at the beginning' as they say. Best, Gary R "Time is not a renewable resource." gnox *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 3:06 PM Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> wrote: > List: > > I am happy to announce that my paper whose title matches the subject of > this post has been published online (https://rdcu.be/b9xVm) by the > Springer journal *Axiomathes *and will presumably appear in one of its > upcoming issues. As stated in the conclusion, roughly two-thirds of the > main content consists of Peirce's own words, but the arrangement of the > excerpts and the commentary interspersed with them are obviously my own. > Here is the abstract. > > Charles Sanders Peirce is best known as the founder of pragmatism, but the > name that he preferred for his overall system of thought was ‘‘synechism’’ > because the principle of continuity was its central thesis. He considered > time to be the paradigmatic example and often wrote about its various > aspects while discussing other topics. This essay draws from many of those > widely scattered texts to formulate a distinctively Peircean philosophy of > time, incorporating extensive quotations into a comprehensive and coherent > synthesis. Time is not an existential subject with past, present, and > future as its incompatible predicates, but rather a real law enabling > things to possess contrary qualities at its different determinations, and > Peirce identifies four classes of such states based on when and how they > are realized. Because time is continuous, it is not composed of instants, > and even the present is an indefinite lapse during which we are directly > aware of constant change. The accomplished past is perpetually growing as > the possibilities and conditional necessities of the future are actualized > at the present, and the entire universe evolves from being utterly > indeterminate toward being absolutely determinate. Nevertheless, time must > return into itself even if events are limited to only a portion of it, a > paradox that is resolved with the aid of projective geometry. Temporal > synechism thus touches on a broad spectrum of philosophical issues > including mathematics, phenomenology, logic, and metaphysics. > > > As stated in the acknowledgments, I am grateful to Gary Richmond and Gary > Fuhrman for engaging with me in extensive e-mail exchanges over the course > of several months that enabled me to work out my thinking on the topic, as > well as Jeff Downard for offering a few provocative questions and comments > about hyperbolic cosmology in a past List discussion. I would welcome > further feedback on the paper itself. > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt >
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