Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism

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Portions of the Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism are collected in vol. 5 of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. The excerpts that are available as digital texts are located at the following link: Vol. 5 of the collected papers

Our proposal is to read and discuss the 5th Lecture on the Normative Sciences. We will be using vol. 2 of The Essential Peirce for the hardcopy of this text. Whatever portions of this essay are available as on online text will be copied and pasted into this wiki. Where it is necessary to refer to points made in earlier or later essays in the series, we can fill in the texts under each of those essays.


The Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism.

The Maxim of Pragmatism (Lecture I)

On Phenomenology (Lecture II)

The Categories Defended (Lecture III)

The Seven Systems of Metaphysics (Lecture IV)

The Three Normative Sciences (Lecture V)

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The Nature of Meaning (Lecture VI)

Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction (Lecture VII)