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Interdisciplinarity and Peirce's Classification of the Sciences: A Centennial Reassessment (2006)

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Classification of knowledge Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge 20th century, early Peirce, Charles Sanders

This paper discusses the American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce's (1839--1914) classification of the sciences from the contemporary perspective of interdisciplinary studies. Three theses are defended: (1) Studies on interdisciplinarity pertain to the intermediate class of Peirce's classification of all science, the sciences of review (retrospective science), ranking below the sciences of discovery (heuretic sciences) and above practical science (the arts). (2) Scientific research methods adopted by interdisciplinary inquiries are cross-categorial. Making them converge to an increasing extent with the sciences of discovery, especially the methodeutic of normative logic, is one of the future challenges for studies on interdisciplinarity. (3) The overall structure of Peirce's classification, were it to be applied in today's situation, would not, in any major respect, be radically different from what it was designed to reflect a hundred years ago, in spite of the virtually exponential creation and production of new domains and the massive increase in investment in research and scientific publication. Accordingly, charges that the sciences of discovery are becoming ever more fragmented are not new.

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Authors & Contributors
Raul Veede
Patrick Egan
Maria de Lourdes Bacha
Gaspard, Jeoffrey
John J. Stuhr
Dunning, David E.
Journals
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Synthese
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
University of Waterloo (Canada)
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Oxford University Press
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Concepts
Philosophy
Logic
Classification of knowledge
Psychology
Epistemology
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
People
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Dewey, John
Frege, Gottlob
Rood‏, Ogden Nicholas
Whitehead, Alfred North
Rorty, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
North America
Europe
Institutions
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (Study group: U.S.)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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