Abstract

Andrew Reynolds' Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Chance, Law, and Evolution is an exploration of Peirce's cosmology geared toward "the more technical issues that are of importance from the standpoint of the history and philosophy of science" (1). Setting his study against the available secondary literature—which Reynolds sees as approaching the cosmology via "more abstract and broadly philosophical issues"—Reynolds makes his way through Peirce's cosmological writings through detailed examinations of the physics, statistics, and biology of Peirce's lifetime.

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