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37. James’s Psychology
38. [Morality and Church Creed]
39. Review of Spencer’s Essays
41. Review of Chambers’s Pictorial Astronomy
42. [Lesson in Necessary Reasoning]
45. The Non-Euclidean Geometry
46. The Sciences in Their Order of Generality
50. [Plan for a Scientific Dictionary]
52. [Why Do We Punish Criminals?]
53. Review of Buckley’s Moral Teachings of Science
54. Review of Ridgeway’s The Origin of Metallic Currency
55. Review of Pearson’s The Grammar of Science
56. Review of Curry’s The Province of Expression
Bibliography of Peirce’s References
Chronological Catalog, May 1890–July 1892
Essay on Editorial Theory and Method
Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Rejected Substantives, Alterations, Line-End Hyphenation
Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text
Illustrations
1892 photogravure of C. S. Peirce
Opening sheet of “Sketch of a New Philosophy”
Detail of H. F. Walling’s 1854 map of Cambridge, Mass.
Second sheet of “Hints toward the Invention of a Scale-Table”
Opening sheet of “Notes on the Question of the Existence of an External World”
MS page 27 of “The Doctrine of Necessity Examined”
Opening sheet of “Second Paper” or [Notes for “Man’s Glassy Essence”]
Beginning of second galley of “Man’s Glassy Essence”
Working sheet with forking trees
Opening sheet of “The Great Men of History”
Draft sheet of “The Sciences in Their Order of Generality”
Map of Greece under Ottoman rule
Map of eastern Thessaly with places visited by Karolos
Preface
Volume 8 in the chronological edition of the writings of Charles S. Peirce is part of a projected 30-volume series initiated in 1975 under the leadership of Max H. Fisch and Edward C. Moore. The edition is selective but comprehensive and includes all writings, on any subject, believed to shed significant light on the development of Peirce’s thought. The selections are edited according to the guidelines of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions, and present a critical, unmodernized rendering of Peirce’s published and unpublished work in a clear text format. The “Essay on Editorial Theory and Method” provides a full discussion of the editorial procedures used in establishing the texts for this volume.
There have been three refinements in presentation since volume production began thirty years ago. The first two volumes (1982, 1984) centered on the philosophical writings in logic
