Abstract

Charles S. Peirce wore many hats during his brilliant and controversial life: mathematician, logician, scientist, philosopher; thus one difficulty for mid-twentieth century work on Peirce had been the apparent lack of systematic unity in his diverse researches. For decades, Peirce studies focused only on aspects of his thought: semeiotic, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics. Today, however, scholarship has mapped out many connections among the various aspects of Peirce’s work— squelching the mistaken notion that his thought lacked unity. This new work, intended as an in-depth introduction to Peirce, stands as testimony to the advanced state of scholarship in Peirce studies. It not only introduces the reader to Peirce’s thought through his systematic unity, but accomplishes this task through the thematic use of the core concept of “continuity.” Thus the title’s double meaning suggests that the continuity of Peirce’s thought was the continuity in his thought.