[peirce-l] RE: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?
Steven, You may already be familiar with them, but if not see also Peter Skagestad's relevant papers at Arisbe, perhaps especially the first two in connection with the present question. PETER SKAGESTAD "The Mind's Machines: the Turing Machine, the Memex, and the Personal Computer" http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/skagesta/semiotica.htm "Thinking with Machines: Intelligence Augmentation, Evolutionary Epistemology, and Semiotic" http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/skagesta/thinking.htm "Peirce, Virtuality and Semiotic" http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Cogn/CognSkag.htm Gary Skagestad, Peter wrote: Steven, See Kenneth Laine Ketner with the assistance of Arthur F. Stewart, "The Early History of Computer Design: Charles Sanders Peirce and Marquand's` Logical Machines", The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume XLV, Spring 1984, no. 3, 187-211. I believe Ken is also a member of this list. Peter From: Steven Ericsson Zenith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sat 3/4/2006 3:30 PM To: Peirce Discussion Forum Subject: [peirce-l] Peirce invented the "electric switching computer?" Dear List, There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here: http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_Science The article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was: " ... first to conceive the design and theory of an electric switching computer" Now, I am not familiar with this claim - can anyone justify it with references? Better still, can anyone identify the author? With respect, Steven --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?
Dear Steven, In Ken Ketner's book "His Glassy Essence" it is mentioned on page 196 that Peirce's brother, Ben "met Charles Babbage to discuss mechanized computing"... For whatever that's worth. I believe Ken Ketner is an electrical engineer as well as philosopher, biographer, etc and may have spoken elsewhere aboutPeirce andelectric switching computers. Jim Piat - Original Message - From: Steven Ericsson Zenith To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Peirce invented the "electric switching computer?" Dear List,There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here: http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_ScienceThe article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was: " ... first to conceive the design and theory of an electric switching computer"Now, I am not familiar with this claim - can anyone justify it with references? Better still, can anyone identify the author?With respect,Steven---Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?
My thanks Thomas, can you please clarify to which document "W5" refers. Thanks, Steven Thomas Riese wrote: Letter Peirce to Marquand, L 269, 30 December 1886 in W5, p.422,423 Thomas. On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:30:30 +0100, Steven Ericsson Zenith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here: http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_Science The article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was: " ... first to conceive the design and theory of an electric switching computer" Now, I am not familiar with this claim - can anyone justify it with references? Better still, can anyone identify the author? With respect, Steven / / --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?
Steven: Thomas is referring to Writings of CSP, vol. 5. It contains a copy of a letter of Dec 30, 1886, of which there is a copy (with an image of a page from it), to Allan Marquand in which Peirce explains to Marquand how the electronic switch (the logic gate) would work, with a simple diagram. Kenneth Ketner wrote a paper on a logic machine which Marquand built with an account of Peirce's role in that, but I seem to have mislaid my copy of it. Ken is temporarily off of the list, pursuing the possibility of getting the Peirce-inspired quantum computer actualized, but he probably still has an offprint he can send you or a photocopy of it. But apart from that you can check the reference to the Writings volume. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Steven Ericsson Zenith To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 2:30 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Peirce invented the "electric switching computer?" Dear List,There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here: http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_ScienceThe article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was: " ... first to conceive the design and theory of an electric switching computer"Now, I am not familiar with this claim - can anyone justify it with references? Better still, can anyone identify the author?With respect,Steven---Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/271 - Release Date: 2/28/2006 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/271 - Release Date: 2/28/2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the electric switching computer?
Sorry Steven, it's the Writings of Charles S. Peirce, A Chronological Edition. on page 422 Peirce gives a description and two drawings (for an AND and an OR gate) together with the electrical batteries and all. On page 423 there is a reproduction of the original manuscript page. The letter is worth reading. Really makes one very sad. See further: http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v5/vol5.htm Thomas. On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:00:07 +0100, Steven Ericsson Zenith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thanks Thomas, can you please clarify to which document W5 refers. Thanks, Steven Thomas Riese wrote: Letter Peirce to Marquand, L 269, 30 December 1886 in W5, p.422,423 Thomas. On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:30:30 +0100, Steven Ericsson Zenith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here: http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_Science The article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was: ... first to conceive the design and theory of an electric switching computer Now, I am not familiar with this claim - can anyone justify it with references? Better still, can anyone identify the author? With respect, Steven / / --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
