Re: Language LO980 (was: Complexity, languaging...)

Fred Reed (freed@cc.atinc.com)
Fri, 28 Apr 95 14:28:16 EST

John Warfield recently wrote, in part:

<Curiously, this talk was the same year that Harvard University devoted
a week to remembrances of Peirce (the 150th anniversary of his birth in
Cambridge, MA, where Harvard refused him a faculty post when he was in
extreme poverty, due to an old animosity of Harvard's president, who
had Peirce in his class many years earlier, and disliked Peirce's
inattention to his lectures).>

There is (at least) one book containing a collection of papers presented
that week at event. The topics of these papers generally have a common
theme of the actual or potential impact of Peirce's work on modern
science. The actual domains of application, however, are very broad (from
math and logic to quantum mechanics to psychology), thus there is likely
to be something of interest to many people. (nothing about LO's though).

Edward C. Moore, ed. "Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science:
Papers from the Harvard Sesquicentennial Congress" University of Alabama
Press, 1993

Fred Reed
freed@cc.atinc.com