November 8th to 11th, 2004

Eduardo Fernandes Araújo
dubol@yahoo.com
eduardo.araujo@cefetpe.br
CEFET/PE e PUC-SP - Brazil

THE CHARLES S. PEIRCE'S SCIENTIFIC ARCHITECTURE: A HYPOTHETICAL LOOK AHEAD

ABSTRACT
The study hereby presented aims at progressing and polishing the classification of sciences based in those invitations the conceptual tools of Peirce's philosophy make to us. When alive, Peirce dedicated himself to detailing the Sciences of Discovery, as he named them. Then, he only suggested some of the Practical Sciences very roughly, and eventually he came to state that no attempt at all was made by him concerning the Sciences of Review.
This article shyly seeks after a step forward in the classification of the Sciences of Review, as well as of the Practical Sciences. This venture will call for a novel design of the Sciences of Discovery in the future: exactly as Peirce himself had foreseen.
However, such attempt seems very bold, given that little information has been so far collected and studied, that the attempt looks forward to inviting the scientific community to enhance this Peircean heritage, making it compulsory to browse through all those writings not yet accessible in the available publishings of his philosophical work: those writings that can offer safer mindwalk-cues about a definite systematization of his pragmatist, scientific architecture.

KEYWORDS: Classification of Sciences, Peircean Pragmatism.

Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Departament of Philosophy
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - Brazil