Springer has now published a second volume edited by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and
Mohammad Shafiei containing papers that explore the phenomenological insights
of Peirce and Husserl. The new title is Phenomenology and Phaneroscopy: A
Neglected Chapter in the History of Ideas
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-66017-7> . Several of the
papers should be of special interest to Peirceans.
My own contribution, “Peirce on the Primal Positive Science,” has a focus on
the practice of phaneroscopy as described in Peirce's own words, some of them
written long before he gave it that name in 1904. My introduction mentions that
I have “found this meditative practice to be its own reward.” Michael Raposa's
contribution, “Musement as Epoché: Peirce and Husserl on Religious Experience,”
takes this “meditative” idea much further. He had already developed this
approach to Peirce in Theosemiotic (2020), but this new paper gives equal time
to Husserl, and finds major affinities between the two despite the differences
in their terminology. Another paper, by Richard Kenneth Atkins, does the same
for their respective concepts of time.
There are several other interesting papers in this collection, but the one that
caught my attention first is the one at the end, where Ahti Pietarinen offers
transcription and analysis of Peirce's late series of manuscripts on
“definition.” Here is the abstract:
[[ This chapter presents and analyses Peirce’s previously unpublished late
sequence of drafts on the interconnected topics of definitions, pragmaticism,
phaneroscopy, and logical analysis. The papers, in the Robin catalogue located
in the folders R 643–R 649, were written in six highly discrete draft versions
and fragments between December 1909 and May 1910. There have been no previous
studies of them in the literature. An inspection of these papers leads to the
conclusion that the sixth draft of the series, titled “The Nature of the Three
Grades of Clearness” (R 649, March 27–May 6, 1910), was Peirce’s final
candidate for his lingering Monist series on pragmaticism that began in 1905,
in which his “Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism” was the third and the
last article that appeared in October 1906. The sixth draft was written in a
fair copy-text form, but Peirce never submitted the piece to Paul Carus, the
editor of the Open Court Publishing House. The “How to Define” series presents
manifold ideas, suggestions, and observations about logical analysis,
phaneroscopy, and definition, and what these studies, when aided by the maxim
of pragmaticism, should look like in Peirce’s view. This paper first introduces
the series, analyses their compositions, and highlights their contributions.
The reader is invited to study the appended original texts and discover many
more. ]]
I'm digging into that now …
Love, gary f.
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