Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Title......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Peirce's Entry in the Harvard Class Book of 1859......Page 25
Science, Materialism and Idealism......Page 26
1 - The Place of Our Age in the History of Civilization......Page 28
2 - Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man......Page 40
3 - Some Consequences of Four Incapacities......Page 64
4 - Critical Review of Berkeley’s Idealism......Page 98
5 - The Fixation of Belief......Page 116
6 - How to Make Our Ideas Clear......Page 138
Part I......Page 139
Part II......Page 143
Part III......Page 149
Part IV......Page 155
7 - Notes on Positivism......Page 162
8 - The Architecture of Theories......Page 167
9 - The Doctrine of Necessity......Page 185
10 - What Pragmatism Is......Page 205
11 - Issues of Pragmaticism......Page 228
Lessons from the History of Scientific Thought......Page 250
12 - Lessons of the History of Science......Page 252
Ancient Science......Page 258
Lecture I......Page 271
14 - Kepler......Page 275
15 - Conclusion of the History of Science Lectures......Page 282
Two Chief Ideas......Page 286
Chance and Great Men......Page 287
Nineteenth-Century Music......Page 288
17 - The Century's Great Men in Science......Page 290
18 - Letters to Samuel P. Langley, and "Hume on Miracles and Laws of Nature"......Page 300
The Peirce-Langley Correspondence......Page 304
The Laws of Nature and Hume's Argument Against Miracles......Page 314
Science and Education......Page 348
19 - Research and Teaching in Physics......Page 350
20 - Definition and Function of a University......Page 356
21 - Logic and a Liberal Education......Page 361
22 - Logic of Mathematics in Relation to Education......Page 363
Science and Religion......Page 368
23 - Science and Immortality......Page 370
The Breakdown of the Mechanical Philosophy......Page 373
The Marriage of Relgion and Science......Page 375
What is Christian Faith?......Page 378
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God......Page 383
24 - Letters to Lady Welby......Page 405
P.O. Milford, Pa. - 1904, Oct. 12......Page 406
Dec. 14, 1908......Page 418
1908, Dec. 23......Page 422
Milford, Pa. - 1909, Jan. 31......Page 434
Ash Wednesday - 1909, Feb. 24......Page 436
1909, March 14......Page 437
Milford, Pa. - 1909, Oct. 11......Page 447
Milford, Pa. - 1911, Apr. 17......Page 448
Milford, Pa. - 1911, May 20......Page 450
May 20, 1911......Page 451
Milford, Pa. - 1911, May 25......Page 455
Bibliographical Note......Page 458
Index......Page 460
Catalogue......Page 472