Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years, Peirce made major contributions to logic, a subject that, for him, encompassed much of what is now called epistemology and the philosophy of science. He saw logic as the formal branch of semiotics, of which he is a founder, which foreshadowed the debate among logical positivists and proponents of philosophy of language that dominated 20th-century Western philosophy. Additionally, he defined the concept of abductive reasoning, as well as rigorously formulated mathematical induction and deductive reasoning. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Sanders Peirce has received more than 1,352,539 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Charles Sanders Peirce is the 39th most popular mathematician (up from 42nd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from United States (up from 195th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Mathematician.

Charles Sanders Peirce is most famous for his work in semiotics, which is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. He is also well known for his work in logic, mathematics, and philosophy.