title: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes I and II: Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic (Volume II)
author: Charles Sanders Peirce
description: Charles Hartshorne is Ashbel Smith Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas.
zlib_text: Peirce: CP 1 Title-Page 
  COLLECTED PAPERS OF CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE 
   
  EDITED BY 
  CHARLES HARTSHORNE 
  AND 
  PAUL WEISS 
  VOLUME I 
  PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY 
  CAMBRIDGE 
  HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
  1931 
   
  Peirce: CP 1 Copyright Page 
  COPYRIGHT, 1931 
  BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF 
  HARVARD COLLEGE 
   
  PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
  THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY 
  CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 
   
  Peirce: CP 1 Introduction p iii 
  INTRODUCTION 
   
   
  Charles Sanders Peirce plays a unique rôle in the history of American 
  philosophy. During his own lifetime he published no book on philosophy, and 
  except for a relatively short period he held no university chair from which to 
  impress his influence upon students; yet he has come to be recognized as the 
  founder of the one distinctive movement which this country has produced. 
  
  Peirce: CP 1 Introduction p iii 
   
  Pragmatism, as it developed, followed the pattern of William James' thought 
  and that of John Dewey rather than the conceptions of Peirce; bu