Charles Sanders Peirce Pragmatism and Education
This book introduces a number of selected ideas from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism. Peirce, pronounced ‘purse’, was born in America in 1839 and died in 1914. He published little in his own lifetime and he continually strugg
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SpringerBriefs in Education Key Thinkers in Education
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David Plowright
Charles Sanders Peirce Pragmatism and Education
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David Plowright Centre for Higher and Adult Education Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch South Africa
ISSN 2211-1921 SpringerBriefs in Education ISSN 2211-937X SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in ISBN 978-94-017-7355-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7356-0
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To Allison and Alexandra. And thank you to three natural pragmatists, Minkie, Tommy and Lizzie, for your constant companionship.
Acknowledgements
I have drawn extensively on the work of C.S. Peirce from the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, published by Harvard University Press. Quotations from volumes I and II are reprinted by permission of the publisher from COLLECTED PAPERS OF CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE: VOLUMES I–II, edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1931, 1932, 1959, 1960 by the President and Fellows of Harvar
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