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    Ethical Habits: A Peircean Perspective.Aaron Massecar - 2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    The central focus of Peirce’s work is the development of self-control through engaging in a critical, reflective practice of habit development. This book details that development from a philosophical, pragmatic perspective.
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  2. Peirce, Moral Cognitivism, and the Development of Character.Aaron Massecar - 2014 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 50 (1):139.
    Some Peirceans have defended a form of moral cognitivism according to which “moral judgments fall within the scope of truth, knowledge, and inquiry.”1 The idea is that our moral beliefs can be either true or false and this can be discovered through inquiry. There have been more than a few thinkers who have placed Charles S. Peirce within this camp and have said that his theories of truth and inquiry provide us with a framework within which we can understand moral (...)
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    Ethical habits: [a Peircean perspective].Aaron Massecar - 2016 - Lanham: Lexington.
    The trouble with theory and practice -- Preparing a place for a Peircean ethics -- Intelligent habits -- The metaphysics of habits -- Thinking of habits -- Self-controlled habits.
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    The Fitness of an Ideal: A Peircean Ethics.Aaron Massecar - 2013 - Contemporary Pragmatism 10 (2):97-119.
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    Peirce's Interesting Associations.Aaron Massecar - 2012 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (2):191-208.
    In this paper I explore Peirce's account of association and his view that it is the only force which exists within the intellect. I look to the British Associationists, especially Hume, for the background. From there, Peirce's theory of attention becomes important for explaining the formation of associations. Finally, I argue that resemblance and contiguity are reduced to association by utility motivated by the individual's interests. Placing association in a general theory of the individual's interests is important for understanding the (...)
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    Essays on Aesthetic Genesis.Charlene Elsby & Aaron Massecar (eds.) - 2016 - Lanham, Maryland: Upa.
    This collection of essays takes as its focus Mitscherling’s comprehensive phenomenological analysis of embodiment, aesthetic experience, the interpretation of texts, moral behavior, and cognition, and exemplifies subsequent work in the field of realist phenomenology being conducted by an international collection of active scholars influenced by Mischerling’s Aesthetic Genesis.
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    What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being.Aaron Massecar - 2012 - The Pluralist 7 (2):91-94.
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    The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present.Aaron Massecar - 2013 - The European Legacy 18 (7):952-953.
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    The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes.Aaron Massecar - 2015 - The European Legacy 20 (7):791-792.
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