Peirce’s Objective Idealism: A Reply to T. L. Short’s “What was Peirce’s Objective Idealism?” T. L. Short
Keywords:
Peirce´s career-text, Completely developed system, Objective idealism, Affinity of mind and nature, Energizing reasonableness, Scholastic realism, Universal semeiosis, Pragmaticism, Jame’s psychologism and radical empiricism, Seeds of death in the pragmatAbstract
Peirce gradually evolved a set of foundational categories he himself characterized as a completely developed system. The article pinpoints essential, intertranslatable features of this system wich in mid-career Peirce referred to as his Schelling-fashioned objective idealism. In reply to a recent article by T. L. Short, it contends that Schelling’s influence was not confined to the years of the Monist metaphysical essays, but continued on in the amplifications and ramifications of Peirce’s later articulations. Peirce’s continuosly unfolding system is shown to run counter to Short´s article which features William Jame’s psychologism as antidote to Peirce’s foundational categories. The polemical nature of Short’s article distracts from Peirce’s own considered reflections on Jame´s position.
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