By Charles S. Peirce
"Highly recommended." ―Choice
"... an incredible occasion for the area of philosophy. For the 1st time we now have to be had in an intelligible shape the writings of 1 of the best philosophers of the prior hundred years." ―The occasions Literary Supplement
Volume five of this landmark version covers an incredible transition in Peirce's existence, marked through a rekindled enthusiasm for speculative philosophy. The writings comprise essays in terms of his all-embracing thought of different types in addition to papers on good judgment and mathematics.
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Thorn, chief clerk of the Internal Revenue Bureau, to head a commission to take charge of the Coast Survey office and to conduct a full investigation. 30 In a paragraph dealing with Peirce, it was reported that for several years he had been performing pendulum experiments "without restriction or limitation" and that the "meager value" of his work was substantially destroyed by its cost. Peirce was shocked and indignant. He wrote a letter of protest and rebuttal from Ann Arbor on 10 August that was published four days later in the New York Evening Post (P 300) and later in Science (P 317).
In his letters and review Peirce appears to have been mainly interested in Abbot's theory of reality, especially as it concerned relations. Initially he opposed Abbot: "I am not only phenomenalist, but also idealist" (p. 280)— two positions Abbot abhorred. But before long he had been converted to Abbot's view, and in his definition of "realism" for the Century Dictionary Peirce included a lengthy quotation from Scientific Theism as the primary illustration. In his first letter Peirce had indicated that he agreed with Abbot's "universal endocosmic teleology," although he showed little interest in his cosmology.
Also in the Abbot review there is an early statement of Peirce's vortex solution to the mind-body problem. But while these years represent a new beginning in the development of Peirce's philosophy, they effectively mark the end of his life of science. It is true that he spent the next few years working up scientific results for publication and he sometimes attempted to revive the goodwill he once had in the Survey (until his forced resignation on 31 December 1891), but he was never again given the chance to work in the field as a professional geodesist.