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[Gary Richmond]

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C.S. Peirce Society Newsletter 5:2
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*The Charles S. Peirce Society Newsletter, 5:2*
*November 2021*


Dear  Gary,

The Executive Committee of the Charles S. Peirce Society is pleased to keep
you up-to-date with the latest in Peirce-related news.  Many of Peirce’s
innovative theories remain as pertinent today as when he conceived them.
Scholars continue to work in several of the areas of inquiry Peirce had
only begun to explore.  As we begin to emerge from the pandemic and as
in-person conferences are planned, we hope you will you will consider
submitting your finished work to be considered for publication in the
*Transactions
of the Charles S. Peirce Society*.  In whatever case, please let us know
about your contributions to Peirce scholarship by emailing
peircesoci...@gmail.com.

Yours truly,

The Charles S. Peirce Society Executive Committee

*Spotlight on the Women in Pragmatism Network*

The Women in Pragmatism Network celebrates the past and current
achievements of scholars who self-identify as women and of gender
nonconforming colleagues researching and advancing philosophy in a
pragmatist tradition. Born at an informal breakfast meeting at the Third
European Pragmatism Conference in Helsinki in 2018, the network ran its
first international conference

in January 2020. A much welcome outcome of the 2020 conference is the
volume *Women in Pragmatism*, edited by Núria Sara Miras Boronat and
Michela Bella, due to appear with Springer in 2022.

The network is especially committed to supporting early career researchers.
The past eighteen months have exposed the disproportionate impact of the
COVID pandemic on women, with early career researchers in precarious
employment being especially affected. Throughout this time, the network has
offered simple acts of informal support that (hopefully) helped make a
difference for colleagues in vulnerable positions: reading and commenting
on colleagues’ papers, sharing strategies to balance caring
responsibilities and academic work, facilitating networking among
colleagues across different countries. To further these aims (and more!)
the network is building a ‘find a pragmatist’

database, an online archive which aims to bring together the exciting and
ever-expanding mosaic of Pragmatist research carried out by women and
gender nonconforming persons across the world.

The next meeting of the Women in Pragmatism network will take place in
London on 2 August 2022. This will be a one-day workshop that will precede
the Fourth European Pragmatism Conference, which will also take place in
London on 3–5 August 2022. Please save the dates—more information on both
events will be circulated soon.  Peirce scholars are relatively well
represented in the Women in Pragmatism network, but we can do much better!
If you would like to find out how to be involved, please email Chiara
Ambrosio (c.ambro...@ucl.ac.uk) or Núria Sara Miras Boronat (nsmi...@ub.edu
).

*The 2021–22 Peirce Essay Prize *

The Charles S. Peirce Society is pleased to announce the winner of the
2021–22 Peirce Essay Prize is Bernardo Andrade (Emory) for his essay
“Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry.”  He
will present his essay at the upcoming Annual General Meeting of the
Charles S. Peirce Society.

*In Memoriam: William McCurdy*

The Peirce Society is saddened to announce the recent death of Peirce
scholar William “Bill” McCurdy (Idaho State University).  A memorial
written by his former student Spencer Case is here

and another memorial may be found here

.

*Have You Been Keeping Up with the Transactions?  *

The *Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society* remains the premier
venue for research on Peirce, pragmatism, and American philosophy.  Our
Spring 2021 issue contains Brent Odland’s 2020–21 Peirce Essay Prize
winning contribution “Peirce’s Triadic Logic: Modality and Continuity” as
well as Richard Kenneth Atkins’s “Peirce, Sentimentalism, and Prison
Reform.”  In addition, it has essays from a highly-interesting symposium on
Peirce’s theory of assertion, with pieces by Maria Regina Brioschi,
Francesco Bellucci, Daniele Chiffi, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Frederik
Stjernfelt, and Giovanni Tuzet.

Our Winter 2021 issue includes contributions from Richard Shusterman
(“Pragmatism and Sex: An Unfulfilled Connection”), Michael Raposa (his
Presidential Address “Peirce and Racism: Biographical and Philosophical

[PEIRCE-L] IS SCIENTISM THE NEW UNIVERSAL CHURCH? The Logic and Religion Webinar, November 18

[FRANCISCO MARIANO]

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to participate in the next session of the Logic and Religion 
Webinar Series which will be held on November 18, 2021 at 4pm CET with the 
topic:

IS SCIENTISM THE NEW UNIVERSAL CHURCH?

Speaker: Laurent Lafforgue (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France, 
Fields Medal)

Chair: Snezana Lawrence (Middlesex University, UK)

Please register in advance!

https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars

Abstract: In a text of 1971 entitled The New Universal Church, the famous 
mathematician Alexander Grothendieck defended that through a process of 
imperialist expansion, science has created an ideology of its own, scientism, 
that has many of the features of a new religion. He called it "La nouvelle 
eglise universelle". How does Grothendieck's text against scientism and the 
imperialism of science relate to his thought? How does it relate to his 
mathematics as well as to his ideas about religions ? Can it be said that 
Grothendieck had become against science or that, in some sense, he had always 
been against some form of science? These are some of the questions that will be 
addressed in this webinar.

With best wishes,

Francisco de Assis Mariano

The University of Missouri-Columbia

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[PEIRCE-L] IS SCIENTISM THE NEW UNIVERSAL CHURCH? The Logic and Religion Webinar, November 18

[FRANCISCO MARIANO]

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to participa

te in the next session of the Logic and Religion Webinar Series which will be 
held on November 18, 2021 at 4pm CET with the topic:

IS SCIENTISM THE NEW UNIVERSAL CHURCH?
Speaker: Laurent Lafforgue (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France, 
Fields Medal)
Chair: Snezana Lawrence (Middlesex University, UK)

Please register in advance!
https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars

Abstract: In a text of 1971 entitled The New Universal Church, the famous 
mathematician Alexander Grothendieck defended that through a process of 
imperialist expansion, science has created an ideology of its own, scientism, 
that has many of the features of a new religion. He called it "La nouvelle 
eglise universelle". How does Grothendieck's text against scientism and the 
imperialism of science relate to his thought? How does it relate to his 
mathematics as well as to his ideas about religions ? Can it be said that 
Grothendieck had become against science or that, in some sense, he had always 
been against some form of science? These are some of the questions that will be 
addressed in this webinar.


With best wishes,

Francisco de Assis Mariano
The University of Missouri-Columbia
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