Charles Sanders Peirce
The American logician who founded pragmatism and called our struggle to get rid of doubt “inquiry.”
Books
- Photometric Researches1878
The only full-length book he saw published, measuring starlight to work out the shape of the Milky Way.
Chance, Love, and Logic1923The first collection of his essays, edited by Morris Cohen, with “The Fixation of Belief” inside.
Mentioned in
In praise of asking, part one
Answers got cheap, so where does a good question come from? The story starts with a parrot asking “What’s that?” in front of a mirror, and goes on to silent classrooms and an AI that never needs anything.