Description: Formulations of the Pragmatic Maxim, even among the classical founders of pragmatism, hardly remained stable. In this paper, I point out how in the early 1900s C.S. Peirce shifted from a largely verificationist understanding of the pragmatic maxim to a much more inferentialist understanding. Rather than thinking of the meaning of a claim in terms of the consequences of its being true, Peirce comes to think about meaning in terms of the consequences of a claim's being affirmed and denied. As I show, this shift has important implications for contemporary "neo-pragmatist" philosophy of language, which have yet to be fully appreciated. Peirce's later formulations also mesh well with Tableau systems of logic (the method of trees), so much so that, had Peirce only been aware of such systems, I argue that he likely would have adopted them over his own graphical methods in his efforts to develop a fully logical proof of pragmatism.
Lecturer: David Beisecker is currently the Chair and Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests include the philosophy of mind and language. When he is not on campus he can be found playing ultimate Frisbee or poking around the Nevada outback.
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