Peirce's Speculative Grammar

This book offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar. It will be of interest to academic specialists working on Peirce, the history of American philosophy and pragmatism, the philosophy of language, the history of logic, and semiotics.

Francesco Bellucci is Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna and Research Fellow at the Tallinn University of Technology. He was awarded the Peirce Society Essay Contest Prize in 2015.

Introduction Chapter 1. Logic as Objective Symbolistic Chapter 2. The Logic of 1873 Chapter 3. The Johns Hopkins Years Chapter 4. How to Reason Chapter 5. The Schröder Reviews and the Logical Graphs Chapter 6. The Minute Logic Chapter 7. The Syllabus Chapter 8. Grammatica speculativa 1904-1908 Chapter 9. Confines of Semiotics