Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on In-Text Citations
Introduction
1 Influences on Peirce’s Ethical Thought
2 Morality, Ethics and Peirce’s Conservative Sentimentalism
	Morality
	Conservative Sentimentalism
3 The Normative Science of Ethics
	The Development of Peirce’s Views About the Science of Ethics
	Normativity and the General Character of a Normative Science
4 A Grammar of Ethics
	The Formal Features of Purposive Conduct
	Degenerative Cases of Purposive Conduct
	An Analysis of the Elements of Purposive Action
		Peirce’s Theory of Desire
		Deliberation and Belief in Peirce
		Peirce’s Account of Intention, Resolution and Determination
	The Desire-Belief Model of Human Conduct
5 Ethical Reasoning
	Practical Reasoning
	Practical Reasoning Made Ethical
6 Moral Realism and Moral Truth
	Peirce’s Moral Realism
	Peirce’s Convergence Theory of Truth
	The Convergence Theory of Moral Truth
		Wiggins’s Convergence Theory of Moral Truth
		Kitcher’s Convergence Theory of Moral Truth
7 Ethical Community
	The Pathos of Inquirers: Intergenerational Altruism
		The Disinterested Inquirer
		The Greater Altruism of Evolutionary Love
		Disinterested Love
	The Ethos of Inquirers
	The Norms of Inquiry
8 Esthetics
	Schiller and the Reconciliation of Reason and Sentiment
	Plato and To Kalon
	Kant’s Architectonic of Reason and Peirce’s System of the Sciences
	Peirce’s Science of Esthetics
9 Ends
Conclusion: The Lessons of the Normative Sciences
Appendix 1: Peirce’s Classification of Ends
References
Index