Mortality in the Light of Synechism: A Peircean Approach to Death.

This paper develops a Peircean view of death by drawing from the principles of Peirce's philosophy, chiefly synechism and related doctrines. As Peirce never treated the topic of death systematically, the main goal of the paper is not interpretative but constructive. It aims at providing a first sketch of what a Peircean philosophical reflection on death would look like. The Peircean view, gravitating around the connection between negation and death, is spelled out with reference to different tenets of Peirce's philosophy. The paper concludes by providing a synthetic look at the Peircean view of death based on the Categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]