Editing Charles Sanders Peirce (section)

=== Johns Hopkins University ===
In 1879, Peirce was appointed lecturer in logic at [[Johns Hopkins University]], which had strong departments in areas that interested him, such as philosophy ([[Josiah Royce|Royce]] and [[John Dewey|Dewey]] completed their PhDs at Hopkins), psychology (taught by [[G. Stanley Hall]] and studied by [[Joseph Jastrow]], who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce), and mathematics (taught by [[J.&nbsp;J. Sylvester]], who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic). His ''[[Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography#SIL|Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University]]'' (1883) contained works by himself and [[Allan Marquand]], [[Christine Ladd-Franklin|Christine Ladd]], [[Benjamin Ives Gilman]], and Oscar Howard Mitchell,<ref name="dipert">Randall R. Dipert [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40320486?seq=1 (1994) The Life and Logical Contributions of O. H. Mitchell, Peirce's Gifted Student]</ref> several of whom were his graduate students.<ref name="grads">Houser, Nathan (1989), "[http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v4/v4intro.htm Introduction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530064901/http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v4/v4intro.htm |date=2010-05-30  }}",  ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce'', 4:xxxviii, find "Eighty-nine".</ref> Peirce's nontenured position at Hopkins was the only academic appointment he ever held.

Brent documents something Peirce never suspected, namely that his efforts to obtain academic employment, grants, and scientific respectability were repeatedly frustrated by the covert opposition of a major Canadian-American scientist of the day, [[Simon Newcomb]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=150–154, 195, 279–280, 289}}</ref> Newcomb had been a favourite student of Peirce's father; although "no doubt quite bright", "like [[Antonio Salieri|Salieri]] in [[Amadeus (play)|Peter Shaffer's Amadeus]] he also had just enough talent to recognize he was not a genius and just enough pettiness to resent someone who was". Additionally "an intensely devout and literal-minded Christian of rigid moral standards", he was appalled by what he considered Peirce's personal shortcomings.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/12/003-discovering-the-american-aristotle | title=Discovering the American Aristotle &#124; Edward T. Oakes | date=December 1993 }}</ref> Peirce's efforts may also have been hampered by what Brent characterizes as "his difficult personality".<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=xv}}</ref> In contrast, [[Keith Devlin]] believes that Peirce's work was too far ahead of his time to be appreciated by the academic establishment of the day and that this played a large role in his inability to obtain a tenured position.<ref name="devlin_2000">{{cite book |author-link=Keith Devlin |author-first=Keith |author-last=Devlin |date=2000 |title=The Math Gene |url=https://archive.org/details/mathgene00keit |url-access=registration |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-46501619-8}}</ref>