Schopenhauer’s claim that the essence of the world consists in Wille encounters well known difficulties. Of particular importance is the conflict of this metaphysical claim with his restrictive account of conceptuality. This paper attempts to make sense of Schopenhauer’s position by restoring him to the context of post-Kantian debate, with special attention to the early notebooks and Fourfold R...

Many students take away a familiar and rather cartoonish image from studying Kant in college – that of an austere moralist who would have it that a righteous human life consists exclusively in an obligation to a supreme moral law (something which seems to involve arcane ‘universalizability tests’ for ‘maxims’ of action), that the claims of such obedience are unconditional, or trump, override, a...

Introduction Commenting on Pearson’s Grammar of Science, Peirce says: “Professor Pearson ... tells us that each of us is like the operator at a central telephone office, shut out from the external world, of which he is informed only by senseimpressions.” (CP 8.144). Peirce found such a position untenable. However, this was neither because he believed that senses do not have a role to play in co...