Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was a polymath whose interests spanned multiple fields including philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and language. He is best known as “the father of pragmatism,” a school of philosophy whose principle that the usefulness, workability, and practicality of ideas, policies, and proposals are the criteria of their merit.
Rosa Mayorga is Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Miami Dade College and the author of From Realism to ‘Realicism’: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce.
She joins us on Culture Insight to share her insight into the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce.