Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-6-2022
Journal / Book Title
Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis
Abstract
Introduction: "We individually cannot reasonably hope to attain the ultimate philosophy which we pursue; we can only seek it, therefore, for the community of philosophers." Charles S.Peirce, 1868 (5.265).
Since the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) originated the idea of a ‘community of inquiry’ to describe and promote the norms of scientific inquiry, that idea has been used to characterize a wide variety of educational programs, academic disciplines, and institutional, governmental, and political practices. The first purpose of this essay is to establish that the precise phrase ‘community of inquiry’—which does not occur in Peirce’s writings—was coined in 1978 by Matthew Lipman (1923-2010) and Ann Margaret Sharp (1942-2010), who were also the first to adapt the idea to an educational program, namely, philosophy for children.
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Gregory, Maughn Rollins, "Charles Peirce and the Community of Philosophical Inquiry" (2022). Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works. 121.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-fdns-facpubs/121
Published Citation
Gregory, Maughn Rollins (2022) Charles Peirce and the Community of Inquiry. Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 43(1):1-16.