ABSTRACT
Charles Sanders Peirce and William James are the two main founders and representatives of Classical American Pragmatism, and respectively they represent the two main strains of American Pragmatism as it has developed since the nineteenth century. Peirce outlined some of the basic doctrines of Pragmatism in a series of articles in 1877–1878 entitled "The Fixation of Belief?" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", and in an early paper "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities". This chapter highlights a few of the key terms in his philosophy in order to see what philosophical tools he found most useful and in order to see some distinctions between the Pragmatism of Peirce and that of James. It looks more closely at Peirce's view of evil. Peirce held that there are three "normative sciences" that are nonetheless related to one another: aesthetics, ethics and logic. These correspond to feeling, willing and thinking.
