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Biography

Charles Sanders Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1839. His father was an eminent mathematician and a professor at Harvard University.

Charles received a solid education in experimental sciences, mathematics, logic and philosophy. When he graduated from Harvard in 1859, he went to work for the Geodetic Survey, where he was employed for 30 years. He wrote numerous scientific articles for the Survey, a number of which were republished in 1878 in his only book to be published during his lifetime, Photometric Researches, which earned him international recognition among astrophysicists.

He also published some important articles on relational logic, the philosophy of science and pragmatism.

For five years (1878-1884) he was a lecturer in logic at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and served intermittently as a special lecturer in the philosophy of science at Harvard (1864-1865, 1866-1867, 1903