Lectures

If you find any part of the scans of hand-written notes illegible, please feel free to email me to ask for elucidation.

• Lecture 1 notes: introduction to Peirce himself; the 1905 essay “What Pragmatism Is”
• handwritten notes on those parts of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason relevant for the lecture on Peirce’s “On a New List of Categories” (primarily the “Introduction” and the “Transcendental Analytic”)
• Lecture 2 notes on Peirce’s “On a New List of Categories”, including study questions
• Lecture 3 notes on Peirce’s “Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man” and “Some Consequences of Four Incapacities” (delivered over two class sessions)
• Lecture 4 notes on three manuscripts on signs and semiotic (delivered over three class sessions)
• Lecture 5 notes on “Of Reasoning in General” (delivered over two class sessions)
• Lecture 6 notes on “The Fixation of Belief” (delivered over two class sessions)
• COMING SOON: Lecture 7 notes on “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”
• Lecture 8 notes on “The Doctrine of Chances” (delivered, astonishingly, over a single class session)

Readings

Most of the required and suggested readings are available online in the course’s shared Dropbox folder. Contact Dr. Curiel to get access to the folder.