Brief review, but possibly of interest:
http://www.deakin.edu.au/dro/eserv/DU:30003655/jacobs-modelsofscientific-2006.pdf
"Models of scientific community: Charles Sanders Peirce to Thomas Kuhn"
Quoting John Welch <john-w-we...@nyc.rr.com>:
Maybe we should look in Royce, in what he wrote after listening
carefully to Peirce. Problems of Christianity and, maybe, in the
exchange with Dewey…in the complete Dewey, a nasty misunderstanding
from a philosophy congress, around 1912 or ’13. Royce’s reply is a
footnote to Dewey’s attack.
Regards,
John W.
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[mailto:PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU] On Behalf Of Aaron Massecar
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Subject: [peirce-l] "Community of Inquiry"
Hi Maughn, John, List,
I tried to send this earlier today, but it didn't go through for
some reason. I am trying it again...
After a search through the collected papers and the Chronological
Writings (I have electronic versions of both), I could not find
those three words put together. That said, I did find a lot of
quotes that, without stretching too much, would get you close to a
"community of inquiry" or a "community of inquirers." In general,
you can find the notion of a community the Some Consequences of Four
Incapacities (1868) and Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic:
Further Consequences of Four Incapacities (1869). I am sure that
there are more out there, but here some that I found.
In general, you could say that philosophers are inquirers and thus a
community of philosophers is a community of inquirers, which might
give you what you are looking for, but this could run into problems
depending on your understanding of philosophers. I understand Peirce
to be saying that philosophers are inquirers in a broad sense of
inquiry. Once you tie this into his conception of scientific inquiry
as a way of fixing belief, then you get a sufficiently broad notion
of inquiry that would apply to both science and philosophy (as if
there was a separation between the two).
Please let me know if I missed anything
Aaron
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Aaron Massecar, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON
N1G 2W1
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
P 27: Journal of
Speculative Philosophy 2(1868): 140–57
2. The same formalism appears in the Cartesian criterion, which
amounts to this: "Whatever I am clearly convinced of, is true." If I
were really convinced, I should have done with reasoning, and should
require no test of certainty. But thus to make single individuals
absolute judges of truth is most pernicious. The result is that
metaphysicians will all agree that metaphysics has reached a pitch
of certainty far beyond that of the physical sciences;—only they can
agree upon nothing else. In sciences in which men come to agreement,
when a theory has been broached, it is considered to be on probation
until this agreement is reached. After it is reached, the question
of certainty becomes an idle one, because there is no one left who
doubts it. We individually cannot reasonably hope to attain the
ultimate philosophy which we pursue; we can only seek it, therefore,
for the community of philosophers. Hence, if disciplined and candid
minds carefully examine a theory and refuse to accept it, this ought
to create doubts in the mind of the author of the theory himself. (W
2:213)
The cognitions which thus reach us by this infinite seriess of
inductions and hypotheses (which though infinite a parte ante
logice, is yet as one continuous process not without a beginning in
time) are of two kinds, the true and the untrue, or cognitions whose
objects are real and those whose objects are unreal. And what do we
mean by the real? It is a conception which we must first have had
when we discovered that there was an unreal, an illusion; that is,
when we first corrected ourselves. Now the distinction for which
alone this fact logically called, was between an ens relative to
private inward determinations, to the negations belonging to
idiosyncrasy, and an ens such as would stand in the long run. The
real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and
reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore
independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of
the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially
involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and
capable of an indefinite increase of knowledge. And so those two
series of cognitions—the real and the unreal —consist of those
which, at a time sufficiently future, the community will always
continue to reaffirm; and of those which, under the same conditions,
will ever after be denied. (W 2:239)
But scientific progress is to a large extent public and belongs to
the community of scientific men of the same department, its
conclusions are unanimous, its interpretations of nature are no
private interpretations, and so much must always be published to the
world as will suffice to enable the world to adopt the individual
investigator's conclusions (W 2:339)
Finally, as what anything really is, is what it may finally come to
be known to be in the ideal state of complete information, so that
reality depends on the ultimate decision of the community; so
thought is what it is, only by virtue of its addressing a future
thought which is in its value as thought identical with it, though
more developed. In this way, the existence of thought now, depends
on what is to be hereafter; so that it has only a potential
existence, dependent on the future thought of the community.The
individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by
ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his
fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation.
This is man,
proud man,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence. (W 2:241-242)
_____
From: "Maughn Gregory" <grego...@mail.montclair.edu>
To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 9:42:17 AM
Subject: [peirce-l] "Community of Inquiry"
Some years ago our library subscribed to the "Past Masters" service,
which allowed electronic searching through Peirce's entire Collected
Papers. I conducted a proximity search of the terms "community" and
"inquiry" within 1-10 words of each other, and found no matches. I
concluded that the phrase "community of inquiry" does not occur in
Peirce's works. I would be glad to have others dis/confirm this.
Maughn Gregory
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