Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• Peirce's Entry in the Harvard Class Book of 1859 xxv
• Science, Materialism and Idealism 1
• 1. the Place of Our Age In the History of Civilization 3
• 2. Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man 15
• 3. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 39
• 4. Critical Review of Berkeley's Idealism 73
• Pragmaticism: A Philosophy of Science 89
• 5. the Fixation of Belief 91
• 6. How to Make Our Ideas Clear 113
• 7. Notes on Positivism 137
• 8. the Architecture of Theories 142
• 9. the Doctrine of Necessity 160
• 10. What Pragmatism Is 180
• 11. Issues of Pragmaticism 203
• Lessons from the History of Scientific Thought 225
• 12. Lessons of the History of Science 227
• 13. Lowell Lectures on the History Of Science (1892) 233
• 14. Kepler 250
• 15. Conclusion of the History Of Science Lectures 257
• 16. the Nineteenth Century: Notes 261
• 17. the Century's Great Men in Science 265
• 18. Letters to Samuel P. Langley, And "Hume on Miracles and Laws of Nature" 275
• Science and Education 323
• 19. Research and Teaching in Physics 325
• 20. Definition and Function of a University 331
• 21. Logic and a Liberal Education 336
• 22. Logic of Mathematics In Relation to Education1 338
• Science and Religion 343
• 23. Science and Immortality 345
• 24. Letters to Lady Welby 380
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 433
• INDEX 435

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