{"product_id":"peirce-on-the-uses-of-history-1","title":"Peirce on the Uses of History","description":"\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":57333108244824,"sku":"9783110996746","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110996746_3bc03c79-1a7c-4ce4-a8f9-8cef741f178c.jpg?v=1779431467","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/peirce-on-the-uses-of-history-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}