Charles Peirce's Guess at the Riddle: Grounds for Human Significance

Sheriff's text moves the guess to a new level of understanding, while integrating much of Peirce's philosophy, and provokes many questions. --Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newletter

The purpose of Sheriff's work is to expound Peirce's unified theory of the universe--from cosmology to semiotic--and to discuss its ramifications for how we should live. He concludes that Peirce has given us a theory we can live with. The book makes an important contribution to philosophy of life and to the humanities in general. --Nathan Houser

In clear and concise prose, Sheriff describes Peirce's 'theory of everything, ' a vision of cosmic and human meaning that offers a positive alternative to popular pessimistic and relativistic approaches to life and meaning. --Peirce Project Newsletter

Author: John K. Sheriff
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 08/22/1994
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780253352040

About the Author

JOHN K. SHERIFF is Ernest E. Leisy Professor of English at Bethel College. He is the author of The Fate of Meaning: Charles Peirce, Structuralism, and Literature; The Good-Natured Man: The Evolution of a Moral Ideal, 1660-1800; and articles on semiotics and literary theory.