Peirce and Phenomenology

Abstract

Phenomenology has played , and continues to play, a central role in understandings of education.When the history of phenomenology is discussed,it is common to reference names that appear among the greats of continental philosophy such as Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau Ponty, Levinas, and Sartre. Stating these names in such an order is not meant to suggest a neat linear progression of the development of phenomenology, but it does attest to a peculiarly European philosophical discourse. One philosopher who bucked this trend was Charles Peirce, whose phenomenological work was unconventional in American philosophy circles at the time. “Until the late thirties, phenomenology in today’s sense ..