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The Peirce Edition Project is a unit of the Institute for American Thought (IAT) in the IU School of Liberal Arts. Its mission is to produce a 30-volume chronological and critical edition of the writings of American philosopher and scientist Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914), in both print and electronic formats. Known as the founder of pragmatism, Peirce is acknowledged worldwide as one of America’s most rigorous and original thinkers, of the same rank as Aristotle or Leibniz. He has become a stimulating influence on philosophers, scientists, and humanists on every continent. He left behind more than 12,000 pages in publications and about 100,000 pages in unpublished manuscripts, covering all manner of topics in the hard sciences (e.g., mathematics, geodesy, physics, chemistry, astronomy) and the humanities (e.g., logic, philosophy, metaphysics, cosmology, history of philosophy and of the sciences, linguistics, semiotics, psychology, cognitive sciences).
In scope and significance, the Peirce edition ranks as one of the top five in the field of philosophy. The Writings are a selective but comprehensive edition designed to document the development of Peirce’s thought and promote the critical study of his intellectual growth and interdisciplinary impact. All texts undergo an exacting critical-editing process that includes multiple stages of proofreading and error corrections, consultations with specialists, and applications of a textual-theory-informed, consistent set of editing procedures vetted by inspectors of the MLA’s Committee for Scholarly Editions.
The resources of the Project serve a wide community of students and researchers. They include an extensive photocopy and microform collection of Peirce's manuscripts and a vast collection of primary and secondary literature housed in the Max H. Fisch Library, the IAT’s core resource. Central to it is Project founder Max H. Fisch’s personal library and papers. It is complemented by the papers and library of Carolyn Eisele and Charles W. Morris. The Library also boasts large collections of books from the libraries of the late Paul Weiss and his son Jonathan, David Savan, Arthur W. Burks, Edward C. Moore, Richard Tursman, Peter H. Hare, William Touponce, and David Pfeifer.
