Interest in Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is this present day all over the world. Ernest Nagel of Columbia collage wrote in 1959 that "there is a good consensus between historians of principles that Charles Sanders Peirce continues to be the main unique, flexible, and finished philosophical brain this state has but produced." The breadth of issues mentioned within the current quantity means that this is often as actual at the present time because it used to be in 1959.

Papers touching on Peirce's philosophy of technology got on the Harvard Congress by way of representatives from Italy, France, Sweden, Finland, Korea, India, Denmark, Greece, Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Germany, and the U.S.. The Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial overseas Congress opened at Harvard college on September five, 1989, and concluded at the 10th—Peirce's birthday. The Congress used to be host to nearly 450 students from 26 diverse international locations. the current quantity is a compilation of chosen papers offered at that Congress.

The philosophy of technological know-how and its good judgment are issues within the paintings of Charles Peirce which were of maximum curiosity to students. Peirce used to be himself a actual scientist. He labored as an assistant on the Harvard Astronomical Observatory from 1869 to 1872 and made a sequence of astronomical observations there from 1872 to 1875. Solon I. Bailey says of those observations, "The first test on the Harvard Observatory to figure out the shape of the Milky manner, or the galactic procedure, was once made through Charles S. Peirce....The research was once of a pioneer nature, based on scant data."

Peirce additionally made significant contributions in fields as varied as mathematical good judgment and psychology. C. I. Lewis has remarked that "the head and font of mathematical good judgment are present in the calculus of propositional capabilities as built by means of Peirce and Schroeder." Peirce as a result invented, nearly from complete textile, semiotics - the technology of the which means of symptoms. Ogden and Richards, the British critics, say that "by some distance the main intricate and decided try and provide an account of symptoms and their meanings is that of the yank philosopher C. S. Peirce, from whom William James took the belief and the time period Pragmatism, and whose Algebra of Dyadic family members used to be built by means of Schroeder."