Dear Clark, list: Well, perhaps it can happen faster if they get some more funding as Peirce's popularity and awareness of his contribution grows.
Best, Jerry Rhee On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:11 PM, CLARK GOBLE <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Jerry Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then for what reason is CP if it is simply an "arbitrarily jumbled > topical arrangement of the Collected Papers"? > To arrange papers with solely that purpose appears silly to me. > Perhaps something is being missed or ignored. > > For example, what if our purpose is to find a resolution to a battle of > names (*c.f.*, *Cratylus*, 438d-439b). How are we to refer to the > sections of interest or ought we to reference the entire essay, of which > there may be different versions? > > That is, is it not simpler to say: > CP 5.189 is better than CP 6.469 and better than CP 5.402? > > > The CP was a fantastic work by Harvard in the day. Up to that point people > typically had to go to Harvard and go through the collections to read most > of Peirce. (Derrida famously had to go to Harvard for a year to read much > of Peirce back in the 50’s) The CP enabled people to actually get the > lesser known (and arguably more important) works of Peirce. So it’s been a > huge benefit but has the limits of being that first work and organized > somewhat thematically. > > The Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition is arguably > much better. But it’s not yet as widely available, so far as I’m aware > isn’t in an electronic edition yet, and is only up to volume 6 which deals > with his writings from 1886-1890. Since for most of us it is his post mid > 90’s work that is most valuable that means we’ll have to wait a while to > use the series or stick with the EP. > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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