Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich,
I changed the title of this
thread to distinguish it from the previous topic.
> If [Peirce] only
published the one book, how do people today know > about his work in
semiotics?
He published many articles
during his lifetime. The best introduction to his work is the following book,
which presents his mature philosophy in one set of lectures (with an
introduction by Hilary Putnam):
Peirce, Charles Sanders
(1898) _Reasoning and the Logic of Things_,
The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898, ed.
by K. L. Ketner,
Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, MA,
1992.
The following web site,
which Pat mentioned, has a few of his early papers:
http://www.peirce.org/writings.html
There are many volumes of
his collected papers, but the best papers have been collected in two reasonably
priced volumes:
Peirce, Charles Sanders
(EP) _The Essential Peirce_, ed. by
N. Houser, C. Kloesel,
and members of the Peirce Edition Project,
2 vols., Indiana
University Press, Bloomington,
1991-1998.
Volume 1 contains papers
written (and mostly published) before 1893, and Vol. 2 contains papers after
1893. (Each vol. costs $26.96 at
Amazon.)
Those books do not contain
his mathematical writings, which were published in 4 volumes and are currently
out of print.
For existential graphs, I
added some commentary to a short manuscript (MS 514), which Peirce wrote as a
tutorial:
http://www.jfsowa.com/peirce/ms514.htm
Frithjof Dau has a very
thorough list of pointers to as much as he could find on the WWW by Peirce and
others about existential graphs and related topics (including some photographs
of the manuscripts):
http://dr-dau.net/eg_readings.shtml
John