Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

Charles Hartshorne is Ashbel Smith Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. Paul Weiss is Heffer Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

• Introduction Editorial Note Preface 1. A Definition of Pragmatic and Pragmatism 2. The Architectonic Construction of Pragmatism 3. Historical Affinities and Genesis BOOK I: Lectures on Pragmatism Lecture I: Pragmatism: The Normative Sciences 1. Two Statements of the Pragmatic Maxim 2. The Meaning of Probability 3. The Meaning of "Practical" Consequences 4. The Relations of the Normative Sciences Lecture II: The Universal Catefories 1. Presentness 2. Struggle 3. Laws: Nominalism Lecture III: The Categories Continued 1. Degenerate Thirdness 2. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics 3. The Irreducibility of the Categories Lecture IV: The Reality of Thirdness 1. Scholastic Realism 2. Thirdness and Generality 3. Normative judgments 4. Perceptual judgments Lecture V: Three Kinds of Goodness 1. The Divisions of Philosophy 2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness 3. Logical Goodness Lecture VI: Three Types of Reasoning 1. Perceptual Judgments and Generality 2. The Plan and Steps of Reasoning 3. Inductive Reasoning 4. Instinct and Abduction 5. The Meaning of an Argument Lecture VII: Pragmatism and Abduction 1. The Three Cotary Propositions 2. Abduction and Perceptual judgments 3. Pragmatism - the Logic of Abduction 4. The Two Functions of Pragmatism BOOK II: Published Papers I: Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man 1. Whether by the simple contemplation of a cognition, independently of any previous knowledge and without reasoning from signs, we are enabled rightly to judge whether that cognition has been determined by a previous cognition or whether it refers immediately to its object 2. Whether we have an intuitive self-Consciousness 3. Whether we have an intuitive power of distinguishing between the subjective elements of different kinds of cognitions 4. Whether we have any power of introspection, or whether our whole knowledge of the internal world is derived from the observation of external facts 5. Whether we can think without signs 6. Whether a sign can have any meaning, if by its definition it is the sign of something absolutely incognizable 7. Whether there is any cognition not determined by a previous cognition II: Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 1. The Spirit of Cartesianism 2. Mental Action 3. Thought-Signs 4. Man, a Sign III: Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities 1. Objections to the Syllogism 2. The Three Kinds of Sophisms 3. The Social Theory of Logic IV: The Fixation of Belief 1. Science and Logic 2. Guiding Principles 3. Doubt and Belief 4. The End of Inquiry 5. Methods of Fixing Belief V: How to Make Our Ideas Clear 1. Clearness and Distinctness 2. The Pragmatic Maxim 3. Some Applications of the Pragmatic Maxim 4. Reality VI: What Pragmatism Is 1. The Experimentalists' View of Assertion 2. Philosophical Nomenclature 3. Pragmaticism 4. Pragmaticism and Hegelian Absolute Idealism VII: Issues of Pragmaticism 1. Six Characters of Critical Common-Sensism 2. Subjective and Objective Modality BOOK III: Unpublished Papers Chapter 1: A Survey of Pragmaticism 1. The Kernel of Pragmatism 2. The Valency of Concepts 3. Logical Interpretants 4. Other Views of Pragmatism Chapter 2: Pragmaticism and Critical Common-Sensism Chapter 3: Consequences of Critical Common-Seneism 1. Individualism 2. Critical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Common-Sense 3. The Generality of the Possible 4. Valuation Chapter 4: Belief and Judgment 1. Practical and Theoretical Beliefs 2. Judgment and Assertion Chapter 5: Truth 1. Truth as Correspondence 2. Truth and Satisfaction 3. Definitions of Truth Chapter 6: Methods for Attaining Truth 1. The First Rule of Logic 2. On Selecting Hypotheses Appendix 1. Knowledge 2. Representationism 3. Ultimate 4. Mr. Peterson's Proposed Discussion Index of Proper Names Index of Subjects