Peirce, Spinozism, Cosmic evolution, and a Universal Turing Machine

After yesterday’s post on Huxley’s account of cosmic evolution, Trevor Pearce (whose book, Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy I warmly recommend), called my attention to Charles S. Peirce’s (1891) essay, "The architecture of theories." The Monist. This is apt because in it Peirce defends what he calls a “Cosmogonic …