Representative practices : Peirce, pragmatism, and feminist epistemology

224 Pages·2004·4.416 MB·English

by  Kory Spencer Sorrell

REPRESENTATIVE
PRACTICES
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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY SERIES
Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors
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REPRESENTATIVE
PRACTICES
Peirce, Pragmatism, and
Feminist Epistemology
KORY SPENCER SORRELL
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2004
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American Philosophy Series No. 15
ISSN 1073-2764
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sorrell, Kory Spencer.
Representative practices : Peirce, pragmatism, and feminist epistemology I
Kory Sorrell.-1st ed.
p. cm. -- (American philosophy series; no.15)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8232-2354-X
I. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914-Contributions in
philosophy of representation. 2. Representation (Philosophy) 3. Feminist
theory. I. Title. II. Series.
B945.P 44S67 2004
121' .68-dc22
2004013166
Printed in the United States of America
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First edition
Contents
Abbreviations ix
Foreword xi
Introduction
1
ONE
Peirce's Categories: A First Glimpse at
Representation
9
Phenomenology and the Larger Generalities
11
Categories of the Real
20
Peirce in Historical Context 29
TWO
The Substance of Peirce's Categories: The World
Phenomenologically Conceived 3 3
Categoreal Reconstruction 3 4
The Practical Uses of Substance 3 8
Constructive Criticism 43
THREE
Mapping the Province: From the Mirror of Nature
to ConstrnctivP RPnrP~PntMinn 76
TheT1
79
Peirce
Fashic
99
Some
102
viii CONTENTS
FOUR
Communities of Inquiry: Authority, Constraint,
and Inclusivity
117
Striated Communities and Situated Knowledge 123
Accounting for Authority 138
A Paradigmatic Example of Inclusion 15 o
FIVE
Mediation and Normative Science: Toward an
Ethic of Representation 15 7
Representations of (and for) a Way of Life 15 9
Communal Criticism: A Pragmatic Criterion 17 4
Notes 183
Bibliography 189
Index 199
Abbreviations
CP The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (1931)
EP1 The Essential Peirce, Vol. I (1992)
EP2 The Essential Peirce, Vol. 2 (1998)
PS Pierce on Signs (1991)
PW Philosophical Writings of Peirce (1955)
SW Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings (1958)
W1 Writings of Charles S. Peirce (1984)
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