Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The origins of pragmaticism; 2. Pragmaticsism and semeiotic; 3. The categories and the semeiotic; 4. Synechism and Peirce's evolutionary realism; I. Epistemological realist and metaphysical idealist; II. Spontaneity, synechism, and evolution: the realism at the foundation of pragmaticism; Appendix.

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In this systematic introduction to the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, the author focuses on four of Peirce's fundamental conceptions.