Charles S. Peirce
Westfall Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
The noted philosopher, logician, scientist and founder of pragmatism lived in this house from 1887 until his death in 1914. America's most original philosopher and greatest logician, a great part of his work was written here.
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
In this house on the Delaware, from 1887 until his death in 1914, lived Charles Sanders Peirce—scientist, logician, and the founder of the philosophy known as pragmatism. Often called America's most original philosopher, he produced much of his groundbreaking work here in relative isolation and poverty. His ideas on logic, meaning, and inquiry would deeply influence later American thought.
Why it matters
Peirce gave America one of its few homegrown schools of philosophy, and this quiet house was the workshop of a mind whose reach extended from formal logic to the scientific method.
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