Volume 40, Number 20 · December 2, 1993
An American Prodigy
By Louis Menand
Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life
by Joseph Brent
Indiana University Press, 388 pp., $35.00
Charles Sanders Peirce is a notable figure in the histories of logic, semiotics, statistics, mathematics, metrology (the science of measurement), and experimental psychology; but he is famous to people who are not logicians, semioticians, statisticians, mathematicians, metrologists, or experimental psychologists because in 1898 William James, in a lecture at Berkeley, named him as the founder of pragmatism.
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