Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition: A Life[Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable. The New York Review of Books . . . a fine biography. The New York Times Book Review . . . an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of