Repository | Book | Chapter
(2017) Logical empiricism and pragmatism, Dordrecht, Springer.
Classical pragmatism and metaphysics
James and Peirce on scientific determinism
Donata Romizi
pp. 43-66
The present paper has two main aims. The first one is philosophical: I show how a question (scientific determinism), which would have been labelled as nonsensical according to the Vienna Circle's "Scientific World Conception", was very much of interest for William James and Charles Peirce, who were deeply involved in scientific practice. The second aim is a historico-philosophical one: I reconstruct James' and Peirce's positions on scientific determinism and relate them to a particular French anti-deterministic tradition (Renouvier, Boutroux, Bergson, Poincaré).
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50730-9_3
Full citation:
Romizi, D. (2017)., Classical pragmatism and metaphysics: James and Peirce on scientific determinism, in F. Stadler, N. Weidtmann & S. Pihlström (eds.), Logical empiricism and pragmatism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 43-66.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.