Peirce's Empiricism by Wilson Aaron Bruce;

Author:Wilson, Aaron Bruce;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

As Peirce understands the doctrine, the objects of perception are “in the mind” in the sense that they are perceived by a subject, and they are “out of the mind” in the sense that their existence and their intrinsic features do not depend on a person’s perceptions of them.

However, in some of his later works,[34] Peirce curiously attributes the doctrine of immediate perception to a philosopher who is not generally known as a direct realist—Kant. And even in the 1871 review of Berkeley, Peirce seems to uphold both the doctrine of immediate perception and Kant’s form of phenomenalism:

[The realist’s] theory involves a phenomenalism. But it is the phenomenalism of Kant, and not that of Hume. Indeed, what Kant called his Copernican step was precisely the passage from the nominalistic to the realistic view of reality. It was the essence of his philosophy to regard the real object as determined by the mind. . . . In short, it was to regard the reality as the normal product of mental action, and not as the incognizable cause of it. (8.15/W2:470–471)

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