Re: [PEIRCE-L] Law of Mind and Origins of Order in the Cosmos

2023-07-19 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Jeff, List: I have not read that 2002 book by Reynolds, but a couple of his earlier papers that likely served as a basis for it--"Peirce's Cosmology and the Laws of Thermodynamics" (1996) and "The Incongruity of Peirce's Tychism" (1997)--strike me as missing the mark in some respects. For

[PEIRCE-L] Law of Mind and Origins of Order in the Cosmos

2023-07-18 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
Hello, Peirce offers strategies for framing questions and fruitful hypotheses in metaphysics about the origins of order in the cosmos. I've seen reconstructions of his account by a number of interpreters, including Andrew Reynolds in Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics. Some Peirce scholars,