Dear Gary, lists, Thanks for a thought-provoking posting. Peirce's phaneroscopy was developed comparatively late but seems to serve, inter alia, as the investigation of what may be present to any thinking mind whatsoever - consequently he also called it his phenomenology, or phanerochemy (sic) - being second, among the sciences, only to mathematics. The quote you give presents a very important clarification of that phenomenology - it concerns what is "open to public expression throughout". This takes phaneroscopy away from individual, subjective, idiosyncratic ideas, away from the iron cage of subjectivity, in order to focus upon what is common to minds, in so far as it may be publicly expressed. Several important ideas are implied here. One is the idea of the later Husserl, that objectivity is not something achievable by a single subject, but only intersubjectively. Another is Kant's famous insistence, in "Was ist Aufklärung", that enlightenment concerns only the public use of reason. This insistence thus places Peirce in the Enlightenment tradition (an issue to which I briefly return in the last chapter of the book).
Best F Den 15/09/2014 kl. 15.39 skrev Gary Fuhrman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> : Good question. I think that for the late Peirce, the key method for avoiding bias and prejudice is phaneroscopy, because that is grounded in observation of that which is most directly and immediately observable, namely the phaneron. MS 337:4-5, 7, 1904: “The word φανερόν is next to the simplest expression in Greek for manifest.… There can be no question that φανερός means primarily brought to light, open to public expression throughout.… I desire to have the privilege of creating an English word, phaneron, to denote whatever is throughout its entirety open to assured observation” (quoted by De Tienne 1993, 280).
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