This is one of the seminal articles of the pragmatist tradition where C.S. Peirce sets out his doctrine of doubt and belief --and their relationship to inquiry and clarity of our concepts. Originally published in the Popular Science Monthly; and widely available in reprints and collections of Peirce's writings.

Describes the various senses as sensory systems that are attuned to the environment. Develops the notion of rich sensory information that specifies the distal environment. Includes a discussion of affordances.

In challenging the prevailing paradigm for understanding how the human mind works, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition is certain to stimulate fruitful debate.

This essential work is made up of eight interrelated essays grouped to elucidate two major themes -- Descartes's role in the dilemma of modern philosophy, and ...

"Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) was America's most profound, versatile, and original philosopher, the originator of pragmaticism and one of the most remarkable minds that the nineteenth century produced. This collection introduces the general reader to the many sides of his work and reproduces, along with the nine famous essays, unpublished or otherwise inaccessible material in which Peirce presented the humanistic and cultural aspects of science and philosophy as he saw them." --.