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About Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( /ˈpɜrs/ like "purse"; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician".
An innovator in mathematics, statistics, philosophy, research methodology, and various sciences, Peirce considered himself a logician first and foremost. He made major contributions to logic, but logic for him encompassed much of that which is now called epistemology and philosophy of science. He saw logic as the formal branch of semiotics, of which he is a founder. As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits, the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers.
Scientist, Mathematician
Charles S. Peirce is considered by many to one of the most versatile intellects that America has produced. He was a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, spectroscopist, engineer, inventor; psychologist, philologist, lexicographer, historian of science, mathematical economist, dramatist, actor, short story writer, semiotician, logician, rhetorician and metaphysician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was schooled at Harvard, where he recieved his Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree and afterwards at Lawrence Science School (Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences)and recieved its very first Master of Science Degree. Peirce's voluminous writings extend from about 1857 until his death and range from mathematics and physical science to economics and social sciences. He was employed by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1859 until 1891. During the period 1879 to 1884 he taught logic in the Department of Mathematics at John Hopkins University. He suffered nearly all of his life with a type of neuralgia (now termed trigeminal neuralgia) and is now considered the reason for his self imposed social isolation, depression and outbursts of temper. Peirce lived a long life of practicing and expounding innovative science and died in Pennsylvania of cancer at the age of 75. He is considered by many a respected logician and primarily responsible as the leader of the pragmatic movement in the history of United States.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 20 2019, 2:17:58 UTC
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Charles Sanders Peirce's Timeline
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September 10, 1839
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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April 19, 1914
Age 74
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Milford, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Milford Cemetery, Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, USA
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