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Author

Midtgarden, T.

Title

Peirce's Classification of the Sciences

Source

Knowledge organization. 47(2020) no.3, S.267-278

Year

2020

Series

Reviews of concepts in knowledge organization

Abstract

Charles Peirce's classification of the sciences was designed shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. The classification has two main sources of inspiration: Comte's science classification and Kant's theoretical philosophy. Peirce's classification, like that of Comte, is hierarchically organised in that the more general an abstract sciences provide principles for the less general and more concrete sciences. However, Peirce includes and assigns a superordinate role to philosophical disciplines which analyse and provide logical, methodological and ontological principles for the specialised sciences, and which are based on everyday life experience. Moreover, Peirce recognises two main branches of specialised empirical science: the natural sciences, on the one hand, and the social sciences, the humanities and psychology on the other. While both branches share logical and methodological principles, they are based on different ontological principles in studying physical nature and the human mind and its products, respectively. Peirce's most basic philosophical discipline, phenomenology, transforms his early engagement with Kant. Peirce's classification of aesthetics, ethics and logic as normative sub-disciplines of philosophy relate to his philosophical pragmatism. Yet his more overarching division between theoretical (philosophical and specialised) sciences and practical sciences may be seen as problematic. Taking Peirce's historical account of scientific developments into consideration, however, I argue that his science classification and its emphasis on the interdependencies between the sciences could be seen as sustaining and supporting interdisciplinarity and interaction across fields of research, even across the divide between theoretical and practical sciences.

Content

DOI:10.5771/0943-7444-2020-3-267.

Field

Wissenschaftstheorie

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