Works by Charles Sanders Peirce

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The New List of Categories and Related Early Work

On a New List of Categories (1867)
Peirce's derivation of the categories: regarded by Peirce himself, early and late, as a foundational paper for his logic and semiotic.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.htm
Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension (1867)
Peirce provides a comprehensive historical overview of the variations on the distinction which Frege drew in terms of "Sinn" vs. "Bedeutung" ("sense" and "reference"), Peirce's version of this being labeled here as "depth" vs. "breadth" (as his preferred alternative to "comprehension" vs. "extension"). Going beyond Frege, after defining the distinction in his own way, Peirce uses this as a basis for defining the concept of information.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/web/writings/v2/w2/w2_06/v2_06.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
Harvard Lecture 1 (MS 94: 1865)
Peirce's view of the non-psychological basis for logic as a science, formulated two years before publication of the New List. It also provides clues to the relationship of his view to John Locke's.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/earlyms/ms94harvard1.pdf
From Peirce's Logic Notebook (MS140: 1867)
Some background for the argument of the New List and the comprehension/extension paper.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/web/writings/v2/w2/w2_01/v2_1.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 115 Logic Chapter 1 (a manuscript fragment from 1866)
[Note from B.U.: the file is not at the current or previous server location of cspeirce.com, nor does the file or this entry for it appear in Wayback Machine versions of Arisbe at earlier URLs. At any rate, the text appears in Writings Volume 1, pp. 351–7 (Google preview). Joseph Ransdell quotes a paragraph from it here. End of note.]
This is a long fragment labeled "Logic Chapter 1" by Peirce himself. It is of special interest as being identified by Murray Murphey as Draft 2 of "On a New List of Categories" and presented in truncated form in an appendix in Murphey's The Development of Peirce's Philosophy, though thought of by Peirce himself as the first chapter of a logic book, whereas the New List was addressed rather to the readership of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Was supposed to be located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms115.htm
One, Two, and Three: A manuscript fragment (MS144: 1867)
This is a short fragment labeled "Chapter 1: One, Two, and Three", of a projected logic book of special interest in connection with the New List in particular.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms144.htm
Critique of Positivism (MS146: 1867-1868)
An untitled MS which the editors at the Peirce Edition Project have entitled as above on the basis of its content.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_11/v2_11.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)

The Peirce-Harris Exchange on Hegel
Peirce poses some questions to the Hegelian circle around W. T. Harris, the leading American representative of the Hegelian philosophy at this time (1868)

Remote locations (Peirce Edition Project)

"Paul Janet and Hegel", by W.T.Harris

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_12/v2_12.htm
Letter from Peirce to Harris (Jan 24, 1868)

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_13/v2_13.htm
"Nominalism versus Realism", by Charles Peirce

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_14/v2_14.htm
Letter from Peirce to Harris (Mar 16, 1868)
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_15/v2_15.htm
"What is Meant by 'Determined'?", by Charles Peirce

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_16/v2_16.htm
Letter from Peirce to Harris (April 9, 1868)

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_17/v2_17.htm
Letter from Peirce to Harris (Nov. 30, 1868)

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_20/v2_20.htm

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Series
On the Semiotical Foundations of Logic

Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Man (1868)
Arguments designed to establish that thought is essentially public, is a relational property of discourse and meaningful things, and is of the nature of an infinitely analyzable process. First of the series of three papers.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/question/qu-frame.htm
- Questions on Reality (1868)
  Three drafts of the Questions paper, one of which is quite long and contains further considerations of interest as well.
  
  Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms148.htm
  Also available in another format at the Peirce Edition Project
- Potentia ex Impotentia (1868)
  Two different programmatic introductions to the Consequences paper.
  
  Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms149.htm
  Also available in another format at the Peirce Edition Project
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities (1868)
Building on the inabilities argued for as plausible hypotheses in the first paper, Peirce develops his basic model of thought as a sign-interpretational process, in explicit contrast wtih the Cartesian conception of mind. Second of the series of three papers.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/conseq/cn-frame.htm
Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities (1868)
Application of the foregoing in the establishment of basic logical principles: deductive, inductive, and hypothetical. Third of the series of three papers.
Remote location — http://www.peirce.org/writings/p41.html
(Brian Kariger's Peirce site)

Lectures on British Logicians
from the Harvard University Lectures of 1869-1870

Early Nominalism and Realism (MS 158: 1869)
The first of a series of University Lectures given at Harvard in 1869-1870, at the invitation of the President (Charles Eliot), on the history of logic, focusing especially on the history of British logic.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_31/v2_31.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
Ockam (MS 160: 1869, in MS Word format)
The fifth in the Harvard lecture series described above.
Located here in MS Word format at http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms160/ockam.doc
Also available in HTML format at the Peirce Edition Project website
Whewell (MS 162: 1869)
The sixth in the lecture series described above.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_33/v2_33.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)

Some Reviews of Special Interest

Remote locations (Peirce Edition Project)

Review of John Venn's The Logic of Chance (1867)
Peirce says: "Probability is regarded as the ratio of the number of events in a certain part of an aggregate of them to the number in the whole aggregate. . . . This last is the position of Mr. Venn and of the most advanced writers on the subject."
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_08/v2_08.htm
Professor Porter's Human Intellect (1869)
A review essay that includes accounts of the realist-nominalist issue in the context of Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham and of the contemporary school of Scotch commonsensism which Porter represented.
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_24/v2_24.htm
The English Doctrine of Ideas (1869)
A review-essay of James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, a classic document of British utilitarianism in its broader conception.
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_30/v2_30.htm
Review of Henry James, Sr.'s The Secret of Swedenborg (1871)
Peirce provides here both an exposition of James' Swedenborg and a critique of James' presentation. It appeared in the North American Review.

http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_41/v2_41.htm
Obituary Review of Augustus de Morgan and his work (1871)
Peirce provides here a personal and professional overview of DeMorgan and his work. It appeared in the Nation in 1871.
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_45/v2_45.htm
Obituary Review of Charles Babbage and his work (1871)
A professional overview of Charles Babbage and his work which also appeared in the Nation in 1871.
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_47/v2_47.htm
Review of Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley(1871)
This long piece, published in the North American Review, is regarded as of special interest in Peirce's work because of his unorthodox account of the realist-nominalist distinction
http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_48/v2_48.htm
- A note from Chauncey Wright in response to the above (1871)
  
  http://www.iupui.edu/%7Epeirce/web/writings/v2/w2/w2_49/v2_49.htm
- A note from Peirce in response to Wright (1871)
  
  http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_50/v2_50.htm

Manuscript Material from the 1870's Toward a Book on Logic
See Joseph Ransdell's 2009-06-17 post to peirce-l
"truth and the 1870s logic" (thread with headers).

1869-71

MS 154 (1869) Preliminary Sketch of Logic

Located here — www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms154.htm
MS 164 (1869-70) Lessons in Practical Logic

Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_34/v2_34.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 165a (1869-70) A Practical Treatise on Logic and Methodology

Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_35/v2_35.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 165b (1869-70) Rules for Investigation
Introductory paragraphs for a logic text based on idea that the aim of reasoning is to arrive at a settled opinion.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_36/v2_36.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 165c (1869-70) Practical Logic
First formulation of inquiry as settlement of opinion with choice of methods, with only two methods recognized.
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_37/v2_37.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 166 (1869-70) Chapter 2

Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v2/w2/w2_38/v2_38.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 169 (1870) A System of Logic

Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce//writings/v2/w2/w2_40/v2_40.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
MS 171 (Spring 1870) Notes for Lectures on Logic to be given 1st term 1870-71
Logic described as based on concept of a sign
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms171.htm

1872-73

MS 179 (winter-Spring 1872) Logic, Truth, and the Settlement of Opinion
First statement of four methods model
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms179.htm
MS 180 (Winter-Spring 1872) Investigation and the Settlement of Opinion

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms180.htm
MS 181 (Winter-Spring 1872) Chapter 1: [Four methods of settling opinion; overview of book chapters]

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms181.htm
MS 182 (Winter-Spring 1872) Chapter 1 (Enlarged Abstract)

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms182.htm
MS 183 (Winter-Spring 1872) Chapter 1 (Enlarged Abstract)
A paragraph on doubt-belief relationship
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms183.htm
MS 184 (Winter-Spring 1872) On Doubt and Belief
A very brief fragment on doubt-belief relationship
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms184.htm
MS 187 (May 1872) Chapter 1: Of the Difference between Doubt & Belief

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms187.htm
MS 188 (May-June 1872) Of Inquiry

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms188.htm
MS 189 (May-June 1872) Chapter 4: Four Methods of Settling Opinion

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms189.htm
MS 191 (summer-Fall 1872) Lecture on Practical Logic
Another brief discussion of realist vs. nominalist theory of reality, with emphasis on idealism involved in realist view

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms191.htm
MS 192 (summer-Fall 1872) How Can Thought Think of Itself?

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms192.htm
MS 194 (1872) On Reality
Realist vs. nominalist theory of reality discussed in context of question about untested hardness of a diamond
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms194/ms194.htm
MS 195 (Fall 1872) Chapt. 4 (2nd draft)

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms195.htm
MS 196 (Fall 1872) Chap. 4 (draft)

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms196.htm
MS 197 (Fall 1872) On Reality

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms197.htm
MS 198 (Fall 1872) On Reality

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms198.htm
MS 200 (Fall 1872) Of Reality

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms200.htm
MS 203 (Fall 1872) Of Reality

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms203.htm
MS 204 (Fall 1872) Chapter IV. Of Reality

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms204.htm
MS 205 (Fall 1872) Chapter IV. Of Reality

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms205.htm
MS 207 (Winter 1872-73) Chapter --. The List of Categories

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms207.htm
MS 212 (Winter-Spring 1873) On Representations
Three conditions of a representation; imputed qualities; ideas as representations

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms212.htm
MS 213 (Winter-Spring 1873) On Representations
More on imputed qualities; why ideas must appeal to a mind

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms213.htm
MS 214 (Winter-Spring 1873) On the Nature of Signs
More detail on the three conditions of representations, here called "signs" instead
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms214.htm
MS 215 (March 1873) [On Time and Thought]
Why thought takes time (no thought in an instant)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms215.htm
MS 216 (8 March 1873) [On Time and Thought]
Another account of why thought takes time
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms216.htm
MS 217 (March 10, 1873) Chap 5th
Yet another accuont of why thought takes time, but this time by introducing the idea of thought as a sign requiring interpretation
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms217.htm
MS 218 (March 1873) Chap. 6th
Chiefly conncerned with causal connection between sign and object, thought and the thing to which it relates; the hardness of the diamond as what will happen under certan conditions

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms218.htm
MS 220 (March 1873) Memorandum: Probable Subjects to be treated of
A partial list of the projected chapters of the logic book at this time.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms220.htm
MS 221 (March 1873) Chap. 7 Of Logic as a Study of Signs
Chiefly conncerned with causal connection between sign and object, thought and the thing to which it relates; the hardness of the diamond as what will happen under certan conditions.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms221.htm
MS 229 (Spring 1873) Of the Copula
The general idea of the logical copula as the fundamental principle of the logical proposition or judgment.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms229.htm
MS 230 (Spring 1873) Of Relative Terms
Probably best read immediately following the item below, though apparently composed prior to it.

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms230.htm
MS 232 (Spring 1873) Chap. X. The Copula and Simple Syllogism
The radical reconceiving of the copula is one way of understanding what the New List of 1867 is about, and this projected chapter is especially important for understanding why Peirce never regarded the New List as flawed by its apparently untimely reliance on the conception of the classical syllogism as in some sense fundamental in logic because of what was implicit in the discovery of the logic of relatives (quantificational logic understood in terms of operations on n-adic propositional functions).
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms232.htm
MS 233 (Spring 1873) Chap. XI. On Logical Breadth and Depth

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms233.htm
MS 237 (July 1873) Chapter VI: The Conception of Time Essential in Logic
Logic is about an inferentially structured process, which requires time and requires that the passage in time be continuous.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms237.htm
MS 238 (July 1873) Chapter VI: The Conception of Time Essential in Logic
A restatement of what is said in MS 237
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms238.htm
MS 239 (Summer 1873) Chapter V: That the significance of thought lies in its reference to the future
Connection of signification and practical value (i.e. anticipation of pragmatism)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms239.htm
MS 240 (Summer 1873) Notes on Logic Book
The last item, very brief, in the material from the 1870's toward a book on logic.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms240.htm
Manuscript fragments editorially entitled "The Logic of 1873"
Fragmentary manuscript material toward a book on logic compiled by the editor (Arthur Burks) of Volume 7 of the Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce, appearing therein as Chapter 5, entitled "The Logic of 1873". When all of the material from the 1870's has been made available here in a perspicuous form, this collection from it will be completely redundant (Located here)

The Popular Science Monthly Series of
Illustrations of the Logic of Science (1877-1878)

The Fixation of Belief (1877)
The doubt-belief matrix of inquiry; logic as the theory of inquiry as experientially controlled. The first of the six papers of the "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series, regarded by Peirce as inseparable from the paper below.

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-frame.htm
Kuinka k�sityksi� muodostetaan, trans. Markus Lång
Finnish translation of "The Fixation of Belief"
Remote location — http://www.mlang.name/peirce-1.html
(Markus Lång's pages)
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878)
The "classic" statement of pragmatism, as conceived by Peirce: an experimentalist conception of symbolic meaning. The second of the six papers of the "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series of 1877-78, regarded by Peirce as inseparable from "The Fixation of Belief".

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ideas/id-frame.htm
Como tornar as nossas ideias claras (trans. António Fidalgo) (in PDF format)
Portuguese translation of "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
Remote location — http://www.lusosofia.net/textos/peirce_como_tornar_as_nossas_ideias_claras.pdf
(Lusosofia.net)
如何使我们的观念清楚明白
Chinese translation of "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
The translation (see it Google-Englished) is originally from the 'Peirce and Logic' website formerly at http://ewisdom.myetang.com/
Remote location — http://www.beiwang.com/bbs/showtree.aspx?topicid=277&postid=1268

The series, as viewable online, plus some publication data.
ILS = Illustrations of the Logic of Science (de Waal, ed.)
W = Writings of Charles S. Peirce
EP = The Essential Peirce
CP = The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (by volume.paragraph)
PSM = Popular Science Monthly (by volume, year month: pages)

Article	Wikisource	Google Books	Internet Archive (requires Javascript)	Some publications
1. The Fixation of Belief Here & at peirce.org	Fixation & other copy	Fixation	Fixation	ILS 43–78; W 3:242–257; EP 1:109–123; CP 5.358–387; PSM 12, 1877 Nov.: 1–15.
2. How to Make Our Ideas Clear Here & at peirce.org	Ideas	Ideas	Ideas	ILS 79–106; W 3:257–276; EP 1:124–141; CP 5.388–410; PSM 12, 1878 Jan.: 286–302.
3. The Doctrine of Chances	Chances	Chances	Chances	ILS 107–130; W 3:276–289; EP 1:142–154; CP 2.645–268; PSM 12, 1878 Mar.: 604–615.
4. The Probability of Induction	Induction	Induction	Induction	ILS 131–148; W 3:290–305; EP 1:155–169; CP 2.669–293; PSM 12, 1878 Apr.: 705–718.
5. The Order of Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	ILS 149–166; W 3:306–322; EP 1:170–185; CP 6.395–427; PSM 13, 1878 Jun.: 203–217.
6. Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis	D, I, & H	D, I, & H	D, I, & H	ILS 167–184; W 3:323–338; EP 1:186–199; CP 2.619–644; PSM 13, 1878 Aug.: 470–482.

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1879 – the early 1890s

A Quincuncial Projection of the Sphere (AJM version, 1879)
Peirce's famous map and its mathematics. Written for the Coast Survey report, which was submitted to the Senate Dec. 26, 1877. Article published in the American Journal of Mathematics v. 2, 1879 December, n. 4, pp. 394-397 with the final map (but not the 25 sketches). AJM has made it free through JSTOR.
Located at JSTOR — http://jstor.org/stable/2369491
- The full Coast Survey report for 1877, published 1880 (large PDF, link goes to Peirce's article in it, but PDF is missing the sketches).
  Located at NOAA — http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cgs/001_pdf/CSC-0026.PDF#page=215
- Google's copies botched the sketches here and omitted them here.
  Located at Google Books — http://books.google.com/books?id=nn3pAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA191 AND http://books.google.com/books?id=TYpNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191
On the Algebra of Logic (1880 March)
American Journal of Mathematics v. 3, n. 1, pp. 15-57. The AJM has made it available for free through JSTOR.
Located at JSTOR — http://www.jstor.org/stable/2369442
On the Logic of Number (1881)

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/lognum.htm
“It is not generally known that Peirce�s 1881 paper provided the first abstract formulation of the notions of partial and total linear order, that it introduced recursive definitions for arithmetical operations, nor that it proposed the first general definition of cardinal numbers in terms of ordinals. [....] Perhaps the most characteristic aspect of Peirce�s approach is that he did not conceive mathematics to require any sort of epistemological foundation, whether in logic, intuition, or by means of constructive completeness proofs.” — Paul Shields, excerpted from Charles S. Peirce on the Logic of Number.
Introductory Lecture on the Study of Logic (1882)
The text, supplied by Peirce, outlines the lecture that he gave. In it, he argues that logic and laboratory work need each other, and that the old vision of logic as the science of sciences is true.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/introlog.htm
On the Algebra of Logic: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Notation (1885 January)
Intended two parts, only the first part published: 1885, in American Journal of Mathematics v. 7, n. 2, pp. 180�202. AJM has made it available for free through JSTOR.
Located at JSTOR — http://www.jstor.org/stable/2369451
Presented at least in part 14-17 October 1884 at Newport, RI, to the National Academy of Sciences; see The Essential Peirce v. 1, headnote 16. Only the first half (consisting of four parts or sections) was published; see here, in Writings 4 Intro., page xl, & here, in Writings 5 Intro., page xxxiii.
Review of F. E. Abbot's Scientific Theism (1886) (in HTML format)
Abbot's book is later--but not in this review--praised by Peirce as showing (in the Introduction) that modern science is realistic. The Introduction is available at ARISBE also, listed on the page for Peirce-related papers.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/abbotreview.htm
Also available here in WORD format
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/abbotreview.doc
A Guess at the Riddle (1887-1888)
Characterized by the editors at the Peirce Edition Project as "perhaps Peirce's greatest and most original contribution to speculative philosophy, and it marks his deliberate turn to architectonic thought."

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/guess/guess.htm
Reasoning (c. 1889)

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/reasoning/reasoning.htm
Dmesis (1892) in HTML format
Peirce on a matter of political philosophy: the treatment of the criminal. A shockingly radical proposal is made: take the idea of rehabilitation seriously by treating them with love.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/dmesis/dmesis.htm
Also available here in WORD format
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/dmesis/dmesis.doc
And in PDF format (a photocopy of the original)
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/dmesis/dmesis.pdf
Pythagorics (1892) in HTML format
Peirce "reports", not altogether seriously perhaps, on the re-emergence of an ancient intellectual brotherhood.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/pythagorics/pythagorics.htm
Also available in WORD format

The Monist Series on
Metaphysics and Cosmology (1891-1893)

The Architecture of Theories (1891) The first in The Monist 1891-1893 series of five papers on metaphysics and cosmology.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/arch/arch.htm
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined (1892) The second in The Monist 1891-1893 series of five papers on metaphysics and cosmology. At the time when the acceptance of a strict mechanistic determinism in natural science was widely taken for granted, Peirce puts it into question.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/necessity/necessity.htm
Evolutionary Love (1893)
The last in The Monist 1891–1893 series of five papers on metaphysics and cosmology. An impassioned and lyrical defense of a rationality model for evolution, set in sharp contrast with the Social Darwinist conception which was coming into ascendance.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/evolove/evolove.htm

The full series, as viewable elsewhere online, along with some contemporaneous replies, plus some publication data.
W = Writings of Charles S. Peirce (also contains drafts of some of the papers)
LI = The Logic of Interdisciplinarity
PSWS = Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic
EP = The Essential Peirce
SW = Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance) (incomplete data)
PWP = Philosophical Writings of Peirce
CP = The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (by volume.paragraph)
CLL = Chance, Love, and Logic
M = The Monist (by volume, issue, year month: pages)

Article	Oxford PDF	Google Books	Internet Archive (requires Javascript)	Some publications
The Architecture of Theories (1891 Jan.) Here in HTML	Archit.	Archit.	Archit.	W 8:98–110; LI 58–69; EP 1:285–297; SW 142–159; PWP 315–323; CP 6.7–34; CLL 157–178; M I, 2, 1891 Jan.: 161–176.
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined (1892 Apr.) Here in HTML	Necessity	Necessity	Necessity	W 8:111–125; LI 70–81; EP 1:298–311; PWP 324–338; CP 6.35–65; M II, 3, 1892 Apr.: 321–337.
Mr. Charles S. Peirce on Necessity (1892 Apr.) by Paul Carus [lone paragraph]	Carus note	Carus note	Carus note	M II, 3, 1892 Apr.: 442.
Mr. Charles S. Peirce's Onslaught on the Doctrine of Necessity (1892 Jul.) by Paul Carus	Carus: Onslaught	Carus: Onslaught	Carus: Onslaught	M II, 4, 1892 Jul.: 560�582.
The Law of Mind (1892 Jul.)	Law of Mind	Law of Mind	Law of Mind	W 8:135–157; LI 82–101; EP 1:312–333; PWP 339–360; CP 6:102–163; CLL 202–237; M II, 4, 1892 Jul.: 533–559.
Man's Glassy Essence (1892 Oct.)	Glassy	Glassy	Glassy	W 8:165–183; LI 102–116; PSWS 212–230; EP 1:334–351; CP 6.238–271; CLL 238–266; M III, 1, 1892 Oct.: 1–22.
The Idea of Necessity, its Basis and its Scope (1892 Oct.) by Paul Carus	Carus: Idea	Carus: Idea	Carus: Idea	M III, 1, 1892 Oct.: 68–96.
Evolutionary Love (1893 Jan.) Here in HTML	Love	Love	Love	W 8:184–205; LI 117–135; EP 1:352–372; PWP 361–374; CP 6.287–317; CLL 267–300; M III, 2, 1893 Jan.: 176–200.
The Issues of 'Synechism' (1893 Apr.) by George M. McCrie (on "The Law of Mind")	McCrie	McCrie	McCrie	M III, 3, 1903 Apr., 380–401.
Reply to the Necessitarians (1893 Jul.)	Necessitarians	Necessitarians	Necessitarians	LI 136–169; CP 6.588–618; M III, 4, 1893 Jul.: 526–570.
The Founder of Tychism, His Methods, Philosophy, and Criticisms: In Reply to Mr. Charles S. Peirce (1893 Jul.) by Paul Carus	Carus: In Reply	Carus: In Reply	Carus: In Reply	M III, 4, 1893 Jul.: 571–622.

A New List of Categories, Restated (1893–1894)

The Categories (MS 403 of 1893) (In WORD format)
A later version (from 1893) of most of the 1867 paper "On a New List of Categories", rewritten for a different intended audience. The paper just below — "What is a Sign?" (MS 404) — was written as a continuation of MS 403, but deviates from the New List by attempting to define the icon/index/symbol distinction in terms of a more intuitive presentation of the category conceptions as "three states of mind".
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms403/categories.doc
Also available in HTML format.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms403/categories.htm
What is a Sign? (MS 404 of 1894)
One of the most intuitively helpful passages in Peirce on the topic of the nature of a sign and of several sign types. Treated by Peirce as a continuation of the popularized version above of the New List of Categories paper of 1867
Remote location — http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/ep/ep2/ep2book/ch02/ep2ch2.htm
(Peirce Edition Project)
Mikä Merkki On? (translated by Mats Bergman & Sami Paavola)
Finnish translation of "What Is a Sign?"
Remote location — http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/papers/sfmerkki.html
(Helsinki Commens)

The late 1890s

The Regenerated Logic (1896; PDF)
Also via Google Books; via Internet Archive.
The Monist, VII, 1, 1896 Oct.: 19–40. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 3.425–455; Logic of Interdiscipinarity: 170–185; Philosophy of Mathematics, in part: 11–14.
Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/7/1/19.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
The Logic of Relatives (1897; PDF)

Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/7/2/161.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also via Google Books and via Internet Archive.
The Monist, VII, 2, 1897 Jan: 161–217. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 3.456–552; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 186–229.

The 1900s

Logic, Regarded as Semeiotic: MS L75 (Carnegie application of 1902)
Two versions of a reconstructed manuscript (editorially titled) that provides an overview by Peirce himself of his system of thought, with particular focus on his logic. There is also an editorial essay on the significance and use of the document.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/l75/l75.htm
On the Foundations of Mathematics: MS 7 (c. 1903?)

Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms7/ms7gf.htm.
New Elements (Kaina Stoicheia) (MS 517 of 1904)
An account of belief, judgment, and assertion in terms of the functions of the icon, the index, and the symbol in predication. Parallel topically with the early foundational paper "On a New List of Categories" of 1867.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/stoicheia/stoicheia.htm
What Pragmatism Is (1905 April)
The first in The Monist 1905–1906 series of three papers on pragmatism, where Peirce distinguishes his own version — the original version of the conception — from that of William James and others by adopting the special name "pragmaticism" for it.
Paragraph numbers of the Collected Papers reprint have been inserted here.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/whatis/whatpragis.htm
Also available: via Oxford PDF; via Google Books; via Internet Archive.
The Monist XV, 2, 1905 April: 161–181. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 5.411–437; Selected Writings: 180–202; Essential Peirce 2:331–345; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 230–244.
Issues of Pragmaticism (1905 Oct.; PDF)
The second in The Monist series of three articles by Peirce on his version of pragmatism. He discusses critical common-sensism and Scholastic realism as its consequences.
Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/15/4/481.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also available: via Google Books (with two botched pages); via Internet Archive.
The Monist XV, 4, 1905 Oct.: 481–499. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 5.438–463, Selected Writings: 203–226; Essential Peirce 2:346–359; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 245–258.
Mr. Peterson's Proposed Discussion (1906 Jan.; PDF)
Peirce discusses the meaning and history of the term "experience".
In a subsequent erratum (PDF), Peirce says "...on page 149, line 25, the last word should read 'definitive' instead of 'definite.' ".
Article remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/16/1/147.full.pdf
Erratum remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/16/2/320.2.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also available: via Google Books; erratum also available via Google Books.
The Monist XVI, 1, 1906 Jan.: 147–151; erratum: The Monist XVI, 2, 1906 April: 320. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 5.610–614; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 287–290.
Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism (1906 Oct.)
The third in The Monist series of three articles by Peirce on his version of pragmatism. He discusses existential graphs.
Remote location — http://www.existentialgraphs.com/peirceoneg/prolegomena.htm
(Zeman's Existential Graphs website)
Uncorrected version also available: via Oxford PDF; via Google Books.
Corrections also available: via Oxford PDF; via Google Books..
The Monist XVI, 4, 1906 Oct.: 492–546. Corrections in: The Monist XVII, 1, 1907 Jan.: 160. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 5.530–572; Peirce on Signs: 249–252; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 307–342; Philosophy of Mathematics, in part: 79–83. Also see quote from letter of 1913 Oct.–Nov. to F.A. Woods in Collected Papers 8 Bibliography: I. General: 1905 (pages 298-299).
Peirce, C(harles) S (1906) & Peirce, C(harles) S(antiago Sanders) (1910)
American Men of Science, 1906, page 248 (via Google Books). Information is supplied by Peirce on his degrees and his fields of research, possibly first written in 1903 (compare with Robin Catalog MS 1611). Second Edition (sometimes called Volume 2), 1910, p. 364 (via Google Books), "Peirce, C(harles) S(antiago Sanders)", with a few variations in the text; this is the version quoted by Ketner in 1995 and 2009.
Remote location — http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peirce,_C%28harles%29_S
For an account of Peirce's use of the middle name "Santiago", see Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce at Wikipedia.
Pragmatism (1907, previously unpublished first of five variants; PDF)
Editorial introduction by Jon Alan Schmidt.
Remote location — https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/51310/40420
Some Amazing Mazes (1908 April; PDF)

Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/18/2/227.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also available: via Google Books; via Internet Archive.
The Monist XVIII, 2, 1908 April: 227–241. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 4.585–593; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 245–258.

Monist editor Paul Carus asked Francis C. Russell to write a "popular digest" of Peirce's article, so Russell wrote:
- Hints for the Elucidation of Mr. Peirce's Logical Work, by Francis C. Russell (1908 July; PDF)
  Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/18/3/406.full.pdf
  (The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
  Also available: via Google Books; via Internet Archive.
  The Monist XVIII, 3, 1908 July: 406–415.
A Letter from Mr. Peirce (1908 May)
Peirce responds briefly but enthusiastically to an article by Paul Carus on Christianity.
Located here — http:/www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/xt-ltr.htm
Also available via Google Books.
The Open Court, v. XXII (No. 5), May, 1908, NO. 624.
Some Amazing Mazes (Conclusion), Explanation of Curiosity the First (1908 July; PDF)
Of the concluding "Addition", Jérôme Havenel (2008) wrote: "It is on May 26, 1908, that Peirce finally gave up his idea that in every continuum there is room for whatever collection of any multitude. From now on, there are different kinds of continua, which have different properties." ("Peirce's Clarifications on Continuity", Transactions winter 2008 pp. 68–133, see 119. Abstract.)
Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/18/3/416.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also available: via Google Books; via Internet Archive.
The Monist XVIII, 3, 1908 April: 416–464. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 4.594–642; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 405–445; Philosophy of Mathematics, the "Note" and the "Addition": 211–219.
Some Amazing Mazes, A Second Curiosity (1909 Jan.; PDF)

Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/19/1/36.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also available: via Google Books; via Internet Archive.
The Monist XIX, 1, 1909 Jan.: 36–45. Reprinted in: Collected Papers 4.643–646; Logic of Interdisciplinarity: 446–451.
On the object of a sign as cause of the sign [editor's title]: From unpublished MS 634 (Sept. 1909), pp. 23-28
A frequently recurring topic in discussion of Peirce is his view that the object of a sign relates to it as cause of it, which he sometimes expresses in saying that the object "determines" the sign (or is a "determinant" of it). Among other things, this raises the question of how that can be in the case where the object of the sign does not exist prior to the occurrence of the sign. [(....)] Peirce addresses that in the [transcribed] passage [...].
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms634/ms634_23-28.htm
Existential Graphs (MS 514 of 1909), with commentary by John Sowa
A tutorial by Peirce himself on his system of graphical notation for deductive logic, with a running commentary by John Sowa. The commenatary is extensive and still in process. Sowa says, among other things: "With his rules of inference and their proof of soundness, Peirce attained a level of formality and rigor that surpassed anything achieved by Frege or Russell"; and that Peirce's endoporeutic is "logically equivalent to Model Theory" (developed by Tarski).
Remote location — http://www.jfsowa.com/peirce/ms514.htm
(John F. Sowa's site)
Passage, from letter by Peirce to Francis C. Russell, and quoted on p. 45 by Paul Carus in "On the Nature of Logical and Mathematical Thought (1910 Jan.; PDF; see PDF's page 13)

Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/19/1/36.full.pdf
Added explanatory note by Peirce quoted in "Non-Aristotelian Logic" by Paul Carus

Remote location — http://monist.oxfordjournals.org/content/monist/20/1/158.full.pdf
(The Monist at Oxford U. Press)
Also available: Quote on page 45 via Google Books; Quote on page 45 via Internet Archive;
Explanatory note via Google Books; Explanatory note via Internet Archive.
The Monist XX, 1, 1910 Jan.: 45 & 158.

Undated

[Reasoning and Instinct] MS 831
Manuscript pages 2–17, 19–29, and a loose note. The Robin Catalogue: "The fine gradations between subconscious or instinctive mind and conscious, controlled reason. Logical machines are not strictly reasoning machines because they lack the ability of self-criticism and the ability to correct defects which may crop up. Three kinds of reasoning: inductive, deductive, hypothetical. Quasi-inferences."
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms831/ms831.htm
[Reason and Instinct] MS 832
Three manuscript pages. The Robin Catalogue: "Reason as inferior to instinct. Comments on the work of Zeller and other German logicians and historical philosophers."
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms832/ms832.htm

Peirce-Newcomb

The Charles S. Peirce-Simon Newcomb Correspondence (in PDF format)
The correspondence is presented with an extensive biographical commentary by Carolyn Eisele, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society vol. 101, No. 5, 1957, pp 409-433.

What has been published where?

To find a passage's locations in various books, take a distinctive phrase, six or seven words, put quotes around it, and Google on it. Look for results in the Essential Peirce, the Commens Dictionary (which has bibliographical data), etc., the Collected Papers, Writings, etc., in order to find page numbers, or in the case of CP, the paragraph number. One can do likewise at InteLex online (CP, W 1-6, CN) if one has access to it (only institutions are accepted as new customers).
Collected Papers Table of Contents followed by chronological list of Peirce's articles, titled in English (German Wikipedia). Here is a direct link to the chronological list. The chronological list includes plenty of bibliographic information and is the closest thing that B.U. has found to a CONCORDANCE. Use your browser's "find" feature to search for an article title. The often appearing word Teile means 'parts'.
Works by Peirce, published during his lifetime (Wikipedia) - Most, maybe all, of Peirce's non-anonymous philosophical works published during his life are listed there along with bibiographical information (original publication, publication in Collected Papers, Writings, and other collections), and linked.
Essential Peirce
The Head NOTES provide original publication data, draft dates, etc., and say what has already appeared in CP or W (as of the webpage's last update). In Volume 2's notes, one needs to click on "Extended Head Note" in order to see the title of the chapter being described.
- Volume 1 Notes (P.E.P.) and Table of Contents, and
- Volume 2 Notes (P.E.P.) and Table of Contents
Writings Table of Contents (at P.E.P.) Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 (at Arisbe)
Chance, Love, and Logic (1923) Table of Contents (Wikipedia)
Philosophical Writings of Peirce (1940) Table of Contents (Wikipedia)
Essays in the Philosophy of Science (1957) Table of Contents unavailable (Google search)
Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance) (1958) Table of Contents (Google Books Preview)
The Essential Writings (1972) Table of Contents unavailable (Google search)
Contributions to 'The Nation' (1975-87) Table of Contents unavailable but CN is part of PWcspD, which see
- A List of Articles by Peirce in The Nation (incomplete) via Internet Archive, also via Jstor and via Google Books
The New Elements of Mathematics (1976) Table of Contents unavailable (Wikipedia)
Historical Perspectives on Peirce's Logic of Science (1985) Table of Contents unavailable (Wikipedia)
Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic (1991) Table of Contents (Wikipedia)
Reasoning and the Logic of Things (1992) Table of Contents (Wikipedia)
Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking (1997) Table of Contents (SUNY)
The Logic of Interdisciplinarity. The 'Monist' Series (2009) Table of Contents (Publisher's announcement)
Philosophy of Mathematics (2010) Table of Contents (I.U.P.)
Illustrations of the Logic of Science (de Waal, ed., 2014) Table of Contents (Arisbe)
Robin Catalogue (P.E.P.) of Peirce's manuscripts including data on publication in the Collected Papers
A Table of the Published Manuscripts (Centro Studi Peirce). Look up the manuscript to see where it has been published. (Note that, in the list, the section number runs into a manuscript number. What looks like "2200-300" means "2. 200-300".)

POLICY

: The long-range aim is to make everything of Peirce's available here, whether actually located on the "home" server or through hypertext linkage, and to make it available gratis, where copyright permits, or at whatever access charge the copyright owner requires. — Joseph Ransdell

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Last modified December 19, 2007 — J.R. (he certainly modified it later, too)

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The New List of Categories and Related Early Work

The Peirce-Harris Exchange on Hegel
Peirce poses some questions to the Hegelian circle around W. T. Harris, the leading American representative of the Hegelian philosophy at this time (1868)

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Series
On the Semiotical Foundations of Logic

Lectures on British Logicians
from the Harvard University Lectures of 1869-1870

Some Reviews of Special Interest

Manuscript Material from the 1870's Toward a Book on Logic
See Joseph Ransdell's 2009-06-17 post to peirce-l
"truth and the 1870s logic" (thread with headers).

1869-71

1872-73

The Popular Science Monthly Series of
Illustrations of the Logic of Science (1877-1878)

1879 – the early 1890s

The Monist Series on
Metaphysics and Cosmology (1891-1893)

A New List of Categories, Restated (1893–1894)

The late 1890s

The 1900s

Undated

Peirce-Newcomb

What has been published where?

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Works by Charles Sanders Peirce

More here at or via Arisbe:

Peirce editorial organizations:

Peirce pages at publishers' sites:

Concordance question:

Free Peirce around the ’Net:

The New List of Categories and Related Early Work

The Peirce-Harris Exchange on Hegel Peirce poses some questions to the Hegelian circle around W. T. Harris, the leading American representative of the Hegelian philosophy at this time (1868)

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy SeriesOn the Semiotical Foundations of Logic

Lectures on British Logicians from the Harvard University Lectures of 1869-1870

Some Reviews of Special Interest

Manuscript Material from the 1870's Toward a Book on Logic See Joseph Ransdell's 2009-06-17 post to peirce-l "truth and the 1870s logic" (thread with headers).

1869-71

1872-73

The Popular Science Monthly Series ofIllustrations of the Logic of Science (1877-1878)

1879 – the early 1890s

The Monist Series on Metaphysics and Cosmology (1891-1893)

A New List of Categories, Restated (1893–1894)

The late 1890s

The 1900s

Undated

Peirce-Newcomb

What has been published where?

POLICY

Queries, comments, and suggestions to

The Peirce-Harris Exchange on Hegel
Peirce poses some questions to the Hegelian circle around W. T. Harris, the leading American representative of the Hegelian philosophy at this time (1868)

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Series
On the Semiotical Foundations of Logic

Lectures on British Logicians
from the Harvard University Lectures of 1869-1870

Manuscript Material from the 1870's Toward a Book on Logic
See Joseph Ransdell's 2009-06-17 post to peirce-l
"truth and the 1870s logic" (thread with headers).

The Popular Science Monthly Series of
Illustrations of the Logic of Science (1877-1878)

The Monist Series on
Metaphysics and Cosmology (1891-1893)