Last semester, my colloquium text was the fifth chapter of my
forthcoming book, Peirce on the Uses of History (De Gruyter 2020).
Now I would like to discuss the seventh and last chapter. This is the only
chapter that is still in a “first draft” form and therefore needs a rather
substantial revision. This applies to both style and content, for both are
still a bit shaky (which I hope makes for a good colloquium text!). The
main idea is simple enough. While the book’s previous chapters deal
with Peirce’s conception of the relation between philosophy and history,
also taking into account his work as a historian of science and culture,
this chapter closes the book by looking at methodological issues about
historiography and about epistemological problems about the very status
of historical inquiry.
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