Books by Albert C. Lewis

Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's edition provides the first comprehensive anthology of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce's mature philosophy. A central focus is Peirce's evolving theory of signs and its application to his pragmatism. Included are 31 pivotal texts, beginning with IMMORTALITY IN THE LIGHT OF SYNECHISM, in which Peirce proposes synechism--the tendency to regard everything as continuous--as a key advance over materialism, idealism, and dualism, and ending with Peirce's HARVARD LECTURES ON PRAGMATISM and selections from A SYLLABUS OF CERTAIN TOPICS OF LOGIC are among the texts included. This anthology is required reading for students and scholars wishing to follow Peirce's development through to its conclusion and to appreciate the breadth of learning and wisdom of America's greatest pragmatist.

This volume covers the period from the beginning of Russell's work on Volume Two of the Principles of Mathematics to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905. Foundations of Logic gives a vivid picture of Russell wrestling with the logical paradoxes, often unsuccessfully, as he tries out one foundational scheme after another.

This volume provides the key to both Bertrand Russell's philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. It includes unpublished work on the theory of denoting which predates Russell's famous article of 1905 and unpublished manuscripts on the so-called "zig-zag" theory with which Russell attempted to provide a type-free foundation for mathematics. The volume also gathers together for the first time a number of reviews and survey articles, along with two talks on modality and truth. It will be an essential addition to any Bertrand Russell collection.