A Arquitetônica de Peirce como resposta ao Enigma d A Esfinge de Emerson & mais além

• Autor(a) principal: Louceiro, Luís Manuel Malta de Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11621
• topic: Arquitetônica; Astronomia; Bioquímica; Charles Sanders Peirce; Críticaítica literária; Filosofia; Física; Matemática; Psicologia; Religião; Architectonic; Astronomy; Biochemistry; Literary criticism; Mathematics; Philosophy; Physics; Psychology; Religion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

Our Doctor s Dissertation as an aftermath of our Master s Thesis (2008) aims at showing that the thorough answer that Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) gave to the Riddle (of Existence) proposed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the latter s philosophical-poem, The Sphynx (1841, 1846, 1867) is in his admirable Architectonic. Our work is divided in two parts plus an Appendix. Part 1 will exhibit Peirce s Sciences of Discovery; or Heuristics: (I) Mathematics, wherein we will show the importance of the continuum so as to understand the whole edifice of the Sciences; (II) Philosophy [subdivided into (II.I) Phenomenology (subdivided, into the categories of Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness); (II.II) the Normative Science (subdivided into Esthetics, Ethics and Logic); and, (II.III) Metaphysics (subdivided in Ontology, Cosmology and Religious Metaphysics)]; and, (III) the Special Sciences; or, Idioscopy, subdivided into (III.I) the Sciences of Nature and (III.II) Human Sciences with resource to the American author s original texts, and his main scholars . In Part 2 we will resort to Peirce s Heuristics (Part 1) to analyze the following six areas of knowledge of his Special Sciences (Idioscopy): (1) in Physics, Stephen Hawkins & Leonard Mlodinov s book, The Grand Design (2012); (2) in Biochemistry, the works What is Life? & Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger, as well as the discovery of the Quasi-Crystals by the 2011 Nobel for Chemistry, Dan Shechtman, and his ten-year ordeal with the Scientific Community (Linus Pauling); and, (3) in Astronomy, the work Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (2011) by Roger Penrose, in the sub-branch of the Natural Sciences. In the subbranch of the Human Sciences we will analyze, (4) in Psychology, the work Thinking: Fast and Slow (2011), by the 2002 Nobel for Economy, Daniel Kahneman; (5) in Religion, we will analyze the work The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (2009) by Peter Harrison, the last intellectual to be invited to the famous Guifford Lectures (2011; University of Edinburg, Scotland), to which William James was among the first to be invited (1902); and, (6) in Literary Criticism, we will analyze some of the Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, the 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the Conclusion we will resume Emerson s Riddle of The Sphynx to verify to what extent Peirce s Architectonic has answered it. In the Appendix we offer (1) Emerson s philosophical-poem, The Sphynx (1847); (2) A 48-page Intellectual Biography of Peirce, with the summary of all the 58 essays in The Essential Peirce, Volumes 1 & 2; (3) The translation of two outstanding Peircean essays Immortality in the Light of Synechism (1893) and Scientific Fallibilism (1893); (4) A diagram of Peirce s Architectonic; and, (5) Diagrams by Shechtman, Penrose, and M. C. Escher