Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce (/ˈpɜrs/,[9] like "purse", September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. An innovator in mathematics, statistics, philosophy, research methodology, and various sciences, Peirce considered himself, first and foremost, a logician. He made major contributions to logic, but logic for him encompassed much of that which is now called epistemology and philosophy of science. Life[edit] Peirce's birthplace. Peirce suffered from his late teens onward from a nervous condition then known as "facial neuralgia", which would today be diagnosed as trigeminal neuralgia. Early employment[edit] Johns Hopkins University[edit] Poverty[edit]

Century Dictionary First alphabetical page of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia After Whitney's death in 1894, supplementary volumes were published under Smith's supervision, including, The Century Cyclopedia of Names (1894) and The Century Atlas (1897). A two-volume Supplement of new vocabulary, published in 1909, completed the dictionary. The completed dictionary contained over 500,000 entries, more than Webster's New International or Funk and Wagnalls New Standard, the largest other dictionaries of the period. Although the dictionary was never again revised or expanded, an abridged edition with new words, The New Century Dictionary (edited by H.G. The Century Dictionary was admired for the quality of its entries, the craftsmanship in its design, typography, and binding, and its excellent illustrations. Sources[edit] Adams, James Truslow. External links[edit]

PEP UQAM- Peirce Edition Project (UQAM) The mission of the Peirce edition Project (UQÀM) is to prepare the critical edition of texts written by Peirce between 1883 and 1909 for the Century Dictionary . The selection will represent the core of volume 7 of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition . The project is directed by François Latraverse, with the steady collaboration of David Lachance, Jean Philippe Dell'Aniello, Marc Guastavino, Jérôme Vogel, Hélène Garcia, Jean-Marie Chevalier, Gwennaël Bricteux, Vincent Motard-Côté, Léane Sirois, Martin Lefebvre, Mathieu Marion, Céline Poisson, Jean-Guy Meunier, Paul Forster and André De Tienne.