Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth
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Published:2023-01-07
Issue:4
Volume:53
Page:434-453
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ISSN:0021-8308
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Container-title:Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Theory Soc Behav
Affiliation:
1. University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Indiana USA
Abstract
AbstractIn recent years, critical realists have increasingly engaged with the thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839‐1914), the founder of the American pragmatist tradition. But the engagement has been mostly narrow in focus and at times misinformed. This paper examines points of continuity between Peircean thought and critical realism with respect to causation, ontology, and truth. Its purpose is to lay the groundwork for further and more fruitful engagement between the traditions by bringing attention to some things critical realists may not have known, and to correct some inaccurate things they thought they knew, about Peirce's philosophy.
Subject
General Psychology,Philosophy,Social Psychology
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