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Title: Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy) by Charles Peirce, Douglas R. Anderson ISBN: 1-55753-058-0 Publisher: Purdue University Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.95

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Summary: too little Peirce, too little system, too little philosophy
Comment: This is a (unintentionally) funny book. Maybe the series that it is in is also (unintentionally) funny. I think the series is defunct. Much of the book is a reprint of a couple key essays by Peirce. OK, that is fine. What does Anderson add? I am not sure. The book purports to examine some of the strands of Peirce's system of philosophy, but these strands are never effectively put in the context of the whole system, and the strands themselves are interpreted in a manner that seems more in keeping with what he author seems to want Peirce to say than with what Peirce actually said. Anderson's Peirce is a kind of religious, proto-personalist, almost politically reactionary and self-righteous thinker. Perhaps Peirce was like that, but even the texts included in the book do not simply or singly support that conclusion. Instead of this book, better to read more of Peirce and get it straight from the system's mouth, or else read some of the interesting secondary material written in recent years by the likes of Sandra Rosenthal and Vincent Colapietro and Ken Ketner.