ConStructPeirce Workshop

Peirce scholars and Peirce-inspired computer technology researchers
will investigate Peirce's challenge, referring to his manuscript corpus:

... no human being could ever put together the fragments.  I could not do so myself
(CSP MS 302, 1903).

We now have the opportunity to collaborate and use capabilities that
Peirce could only imagine when he posed the practical question:

... how much the business of thinking a machine could possibly be made
to perform, and what part of it must be left to the living mind (CSP MS 831, 1887)

We plan to:

• explore the challenges of reconstructing Peirce's manuscript archive,
• examine technology to support reasoning in evidence-gathering and interpretation, and
• consider creating an “evolving transdisciplinary-crowdsourced catalogue” to relate
    Peircian concepts and reveal implicit connections, for continuously improving
    scholarship as reconstruction proceeds.

And we will conjecture how he might represent and extend his own ideas today,
using technology developed in the past 100 years.