Publication Details
Making Metaphysics Legitimate: Peirce and His Project of Scientific Philosophy
(Original title: Legitimizácia metafyziky alebo Peirceov projekt vedeckej filozofie)
Filozofia, 68 (2013), 4, 285-295.Type of work: Papers
Publication language: Slovak
Abstract
The essay offers an explanation of the most important Peirce’s steps on his way to scientific metaphysics. His philosophy might be described as a conceptual reconstruction of the universe using the methods of science. Logic and methodology and their place in the construction of the new philosophy, i.e. Peirce’s scientific metaphysics, are outlined as well. Fallibilism and abduction are among the means needed to achieve this objective. Peirce suggests that the key to the explanation of active human condition is the philosophy of pragmaticism.
Keywords
Abduction, Effective heuristic method, Logical-methodological basis of the new philosophy, New ways of metaphysics, Philosophy, Science and metaphysics
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