Dissertation Abstract
El Conocimiento Como Creencia en el Joven Peirce
(Knowledge as Belief in the Early Peirce)
by
Josefa Francisca Lopez-Melian
Degree: PH.D.
Year: 1998
Pages: 00313
Institution: UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA (
Source: DAI, 60, no. 02C, (1998): 0232
The thesis is an investigation of Peirce's habit of
knowledge, having as a point of view the law of continuity and temporality of
the consciousness. These habits of knowledge have in common the themes of
logic, phenomenology, and semantics and what Peirce identifies as the leading
or guiding principle,
which I particularly have interpreted as
a process of attention.
Attention
is given place to the habits of knowledge. There are no habits of knowledge
without attention, nor can we learn something new without paying attention to
the new information. Attention is the most selective element from the
perception process and refers to the intentionality of consciousness. The intentions of consciousness produce
associations among ideas. At the same time, associations among ideas obey a
principle that Peirce in his article "The Law of Mind" from 1892
called the law of continuity, this detailed study referred to consciousness
intentionality. My thesis, then, is a defence of the attention process which
creates associations among ideas.
This
attention process is the origin of the habit-belief process, according to Peirce.
This attention process also concerns imagination and instinct. This is imagination
process joined with instinct which Peirce already finds in the modern thought. This
knowledge whose origin is found in the attention
process which gives place to the habits, is what I call knowledge like belief.
Due
to the fact that knowledge like belief originates with habits, I dedicate the
first chapter to mark antecedents of knowledge like belief in modern
philosophy, the second chapter to logic related beliefs, the third chapter to
habit in the beliefs of phenomenology, the fourth chapter to habit in sign
theory, and the last chapter to the investigator’s communitarian regulatIve principle,
the ideal or postulate of knowledge like belief which the mature Peirce noted in
his writings.
Reference
Copy: UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA, FACULTAD
DE FILOSOFIA, E-31080
Language: Spanish
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: PHILOSOPHY
Accession
No: AAGC704950
Provider: OCLC
Database: Dissertations