The Hidden Treasure of C. S. Peirce’s Manuscripts

This article presents a short but detailed account of the current issues facing Peirce scholarship in efforts to preserve and interpret Peirce’s massive corpus archived at Harvard. The significance of Peirce’s multimodal writings (including colorful graphics and text), along with his convoluted processes of inquiry in the development of his philosophy, are examined to indicate why the representational experiments in his manuscripts, and their topological continuity, defy the limitations of conventional publishing. With full and effective access to his entire corpus, scholars could trace the self-critical evolution of Peirce’s ideas, from origins to mature expressions, and thereby gain a more complete understanding of his immense intellectual offering to humanity. Here, in this first article (in a series of four), we begin to identify what will be required

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• Signals, Semiotics

  Open Access•Betsy Van der Veer Martens•Keywords In and Out of Context•2023

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• Peirce and learning theory

  Cary Campbell•Chinese Semiotic Studies•2021

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• Reasoning and the Logic of Things

  Edward H Madden, Charles Sanders Peirce et al.•The Philosophical Review•1994

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• Reasoning and the Logic of Things. The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898

  Jaime Nubiola, Charles Sanders Peirce et al.•The Philosophical Quarterly•1993

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