{"product_id":"peirce-on-the-uses-of-history-9783110649499","title":"Peirce on the Uses of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present book is the first to undertake a systematic study of Peirce’s \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003econception of historical knowledge and of its value for philosophy. It does \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eso by both reconstructing in detail Peirce’s arguments and giving a \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edetailed account of the many ways in which history becomes an object of \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eexplicit reflection in his writings. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book’s leading idea may be stated as follows: Peirce manages to put \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etogether an exceptionally compelling argument about history’s bearing on \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ephilosophy not so much because he derives it from a well-articulated and \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epolished conception of the relation between the two disciplines; but on \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe contrary, because he holds on to this relation while intuiting that it \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecan easily turn into a conflict. This potential conflict acts therefore as a \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003espur to put forth an unusually profound and multi-faceted analysis of \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhat it means for philosophy to rely on historical arguments. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeirce looks at history as a way to render philosophical investigations \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emore detailed, more concrete and more sensitive to the infinite and \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eunforeseeable nuances that characterize human experience. In this way, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehe provides us with an exceptionally valuable contribution to a question \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethat has remained gravely under-theorized in contemporary debates. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516602671447,"sku":"9783110649499","price":80.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peirce-on-the-uses-of-history-9783110649499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}