Peter Ochs is Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University and an MA in Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is author of over forty journal articles and reviews in theology and philosophy and has previously edited a volume enitled Understanding the Rabbinic Mind: Essays on the Hermeneutic of Max Kadushin.
Part I. Pierce's Pragmatic Writing: 1. Introduction: reading Peirce's pragmatism
2. Pragmatic methods of reading and interpretation
3. Problems in Peirce's early critique of cartesianism
4. Problems in Peirce's early theory of pragmatism
5. Problems in Peirce's normative theory of pragmatism, 1878-1903
6. A pragmatic reading of Peirce's lectures on pragmatism
Part II. Pierce's Pragmatic Writing: 17. Irremediable vagueness in Peirce's pragmaticist writings: a plain sense reading
8. Pragmaticism re-read: from common-sense to the logic of scripture.
