Date of Award
4-1983
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Thomas Prendergast
Second Advisor
Robert B. Ashmore
Third Advisor
Keith Algozin
Fourth Advisor
Beatrice Zedler
Fifth Advisor
Stanley Harrison
Abstract
In an unpublished manuscript, Charles Sanders Peirce "set down almost at random a small specimen questions of metaphysics which press, not for hasty, but for industrious and solid investigation."(6.6; circa 1903) One of these questions was "What is consciousness or mind like?" Scattered throughout the writings of Peirce are numerous discussions of this and related questions. On the surface, these discussions do not appear to be integrally related to one another; rather they seem to constitute a series of illuminating but disparate attempts to explain the nature of
mind.
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