Charles Sanders Pierce was born September 10, 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died April 19, 1914 in Milford, Pennsylvania. He was a logician, philosopher, and scientist. Similar to Saussure his contemporaneous, Pierce lived in an intellectual family, since his father, Benjamin Charles Sanders Pierce was a scientist and professor of mathematics at Harvard which stimulated and educated to his son in those fields. His brother James, teaches mathematics in company of his father during 40 years.
At the age of just twelve years, became fascinated with logic, for that reason he built by himself a laboratory of chemical, when he started a complex analysis, confirming that he was a smart guy (Vicente, 2012). Then, at 13, he read the “Logic” by Whately, a few years later he studied the “Cartas sobre la educación del hombre” by Schiller, and during three years he spend two continuous hours to “Crítica de la razón pura” by Kant that, as he someday said, memorized at last.
Charles S. Pierce was acquired his master of chemistry and degree of mathematics at Harvard (1859). From 1859 until 1891 he worked as a scientist for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, while
privately pursuing his studies in logic. Unfortunately, Pierce had a hard personality and for that reason he never been able to belong in an employment for a long time.
Later, in an effort to develop his mind and specially the sense of taste, he became in an expert taster, but soon fell into the liquor, which affect all social and personal aspects.
In 1862, Pierce got marriage at the age of 23 with Harriet Melusine Fay, a very loved writer woman on high society of Cambridge, but they were separated in 1876, and in 1883 he got married again with an eccentric French girl, Juliette A. Froissy. On this time, from 1879 to 1884, he worked at John Hopkins University, but he was fired because the students said that Pierce did not had a logic classes, they affirmed that he did not connected his ideas, he did not had coherence. Consequently, Charles Pierce had seen in a serious economical situation because of his addictions and his eccentric wife, at the same time in 1909, Pierce began to inject morphine due to cancer pain, and finally, in 1914 he died on Milford, inclusively without money for his own funeral.
Bibliografía
Vicente, K. (2012). Charles Sanders Pierce. En V. Zecchetto, Seis semiólogos en busca del lector (4 edición ed., págs. 41-46). Buenos aires, Argentina: La crujía Ediciones.
http://www.egs.edu/library/charles-sanders-peirce/biography/
At the age of just twelve years, became fascinated with logic, for that reason he built by himself a laboratory of chemical, when he started a complex analysis, confirming that he was a smart guy (Vicente, 2012). Then, at 13, he read the “Logic” by Whately, a few years later he studied the “Cartas sobre la educación del hombre” by Schiller, and during three years he spend two continuous hours to “Crítica de la razón pura” by Kant that, as he someday said, memorized at last.
Charles S. Pierce was acquired his master of chemistry and degree of mathematics at Harvard (1859). From 1859 until 1891 he worked as a scientist for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, while
privately pursuing his studies in logic. Unfortunately, Pierce had a hard personality and for that reason he never been able to belong in an employment for a long time.
Later, in an effort to develop his mind and specially the sense of taste, he became in an expert taster, but soon fell into the liquor, which affect all social and personal aspects.
In 1862, Pierce got marriage at the age of 23 with Harriet Melusine Fay, a very loved writer woman on high society of Cambridge, but they were separated in 1876, and in 1883 he got married again with an eccentric French girl, Juliette A. Froissy. On this time, from 1879 to 1884, he worked at John Hopkins University, but he was fired because the students said that Pierce did not had a logic classes, they affirmed that he did not connected his ideas, he did not had coherence. Consequently, Charles Pierce had seen in a serious economical situation because of his addictions and his eccentric wife, at the same time in 1909, Pierce began to inject morphine due to cancer pain, and finally, in 1914 he died on Milford, inclusively without money for his own funeral.
Bibliografía
Vicente, K. (2012). Charles Sanders Pierce. En V. Zecchetto, Seis semiólogos en busca del lector (4 edición ed., págs. 41-46). Buenos aires, Argentina: La crujía Ediciones.
http://www.egs.edu/library/charles-sanders-peirce/biography/