List,
I've added two books to the "Books 2006-2015" page at Arisbe.
Albert Atkin has written a book _Peirce_. He wrote a number of Peirce
articles in online philosophy encyclopedias:
ALBERT ATKIN
* "Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)" in the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy <http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircebi/>
http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircebi/
* "C.S. Peirce's Architectonic Philosophy" in the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy <http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/>
http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircear/
* "C.S. Peirce's Pragmatism" in the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy <http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircepr/>
http://www.iep.utm.edu/peircepr/
* "Peirce's Theory of Signs" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/>
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/
Here's the entry on his new book _Peirce_:
* Peirce.
Albert Atkin. Series: The Routledge Philosophers. Routledge, August,
2015. Hardcover, Paperback
<https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415488327>
https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415488327
316 pages.
o /Publisher's description:/
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the
founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American
philosophers. Peirce is also widely known for his work on truth,
his foundational work in mathematical logic, and an influential
theory of signs, or semiotics. Albert Atkin introduces the full
spectrum of Peirce’s thought for those coming to his work for
the first time.
The book begins with an overview of Peirce’s life and work,
considering his early and long-standing interest in logic and
science, and highlighting important views on the structure of
philosophical thought. Atkin then explains Peirce’s accounts of
pragmatism and truth examining important later developments to
these theories. He then introduces Peirce’s full accounts of
semiotics, examines his foundational work on formal and
graphical logic, and introduces Peirce’s account of metaphysics,
the least understood aspect of his philosophy. The final chapter
considers Peirce’s legacy and influence on the thought of
philosophers such as John Dewey and Richard Rorty, as well as
highlighting areas where Peirce’s ideas could still provide
important insights for contemporary philosophers.
Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and
a glossary, this invaluable introduction and guide to Peirce’s
philosophy is essential reading for those new to his work.
o Faculty page
<http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/albert_atkin/>.
The other book that I've added is by Ben Novak, and we discussed it here
at peirce-l:
* Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant.
Ben Novak. Lexington Books, May 2014. Hardcover, eBook
<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739192245/Hitler-and-Abductive-Logic-The-Strategy-of-a-Tyrant#>
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739192245/Hitler-and-Abductive-Logic-The-Strategy-of-a-Tyrant#
256 pages.
o /Publisher's description:/
Adolf Hitler is the greatest mystery of the 20th century, and
the mystery surrounding him consists of two unanswered questions
that have baffled biographers and historians. First, how did he
ever rise to power? Second, who was he really?
Hitler had the power to mesmerize crowds as the most dynamic
orator of the modern age. Yet, his power was not in his ideas,
which he collected from the gutter sheets of Vienna, nor was it
in his personality; his biographers describe him as an
"unperson" and his character as a "void" and a "black hole."
What, then, was the source of his power? Was he a medium or a
magician with paranormal powers, as many contemporaries thought?
Or did he have a secret or method that has not yet been revealed?
Ben Novak spent fourteen years searching for the secret of
Hitler's political success and his power as a speaker. Hitler's
most astute contemporary observer, Konrad Heiden, who wrote the
first objective books on Hitler warning that this man was "the
greatest massdisturber in world history," suggested that
Hitler's secret lay in his use of "eine eigentiimliche art von
Logik,"or a "peculiar form of logic." Beginning with this clue,
Novak finds that there is a new form of logic in accordance with
Heiden's description and examples that can explain Hitler's
phenomenal political success. This new form of logic, called
"abduction," was discovered by an American philosopher, Charles
Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), who is rapidly becoming America's
most well-known philosopher and logician.
Abduction is a third form of logic, in addition to deduction and
induction. Unlike the other forms of logic, abduction is based
on instinct and has a power over emotions. Novak argues that
Hitler was the first politician to apply the logic of abduction
to politics. This book provides the first coherent account of
Hitler's youth that ties together all the known facts, clearly
showing the genesis of the strangest and most terrible man of
the twentieth century while identifying the power he discovered
that allowed him to break out into the world in such a
terrifying way.
Ben Novak is an independent scholar with an interdisciplinary
Ph.D. in history, philosophy, and political science from
Pennsylvania State University.
o /Table of Contents/
1: The Historical Problem of Hitler \ 2: The Third Logic: The
Background and Formal Structure of Abduction \
3: Characteristics of Abduction \ 4: Abductive Logic in
Literature \ 5: The Application of Peirce's Abductive Theory to
Unraveling the Mystery of Hitler's Youth \ 6: The Genesis of the
Fuehrer: The Birth of Hitler's Character \ 7: In That Hour it
Began \ 8: Closing Argument: How Did He Do It?
o Publisher's page includes favorable comments by BETH A.
GRIECH-POLELLE, Bowling Green State University, and JACKSON
SPIELVOGEL, Pennsylvania State University.
o Website <http://www.bennovak.net/> http://www.bennovak.net/
There's a new Portuguese book or two about Peirce, which I'll add later.
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