Bøker av Vincent G. Potter

The work of Charles S. Peirce has forced us back to philosophical reflection about those basic issues that confront us as human beings. Here, Father Potter argues that Peirce's doctrine of normative sciences is essential to his pragmatism, showing him as a cosmological and ontological thinker.

This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.

Gives a concise summary of the Enlightenment period, demonstrating how and why Rationalism and Empiricism came about, and challenges the reader not to simply note the points of disparity between the two schools, but to notice the similarities of their common assumptions - both substantive and methodological.

A translation of "De Aeternitate Mundi", written around 1270, by theologian John Pecham, later Archbishop of Canterbury. This essay was presented as part of his "inceptio", the equivalent of a doctrinal defence, when he sought to become a "magister regens", a member of the theological faculty.

This basic introduction to the philosophical inquiry into the fundamental questions of human knowing features a range of carefully designed study questions.