Peirce’s transmutation of Schelling’s Philosophie der Natur

Abstract

The paper postulates a trans-Atlantic paradigm to account for the continuity between the thought of Schelling and Peirce. Praising Schelling’s freedom from the trammels of system, Peirce declared his interest in all stages of Schelling’s career, and especially his Philosophie der Natur. In the course of the developmental teleology of his career-text, Peirce digested and transformed, via his semiotic ontology of the Three Categories, basic features of Schelling’s idealistic and post-idealistic phases.