{"title":"Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design","authors":"James Jakób Liszka","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101249","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Peirce, founder of pragmatism, developed a new sense of aesthetics focused on design. He reimagined aesthetics in a chain of “normative sciences” that links the design of means to function and function to good ends. Peirce realized that means-end reasoning is amoral and needs ethical guidance. He thought, like Aristotle and Mill, that the fix would be finding a higher end that was both good and desirous and could be used as a moral test for specific ends and means. The discovery of this end would be the result of inquiry, but he realized that inquiry itself had normative constraints that functions as a higher end. I show how these normative constraints can be applied to the study of design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Design Studies","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X24000127","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Peirce, founder of pragmatism, developed a new sense of aesthetics focused on design. He reimagined aesthetics in a chain of “normative sciences” that links the design of means to function and function to good ends. Peirce realized that means-end reasoning is amoral and needs ethical guidance. He thought, like Aristotle and Mill, that the fix would be finding a higher end that was both good and desirous and could be used as a moral test for specific ends and means. The discovery of this end would be the result of inquiry, but he realized that inquiry itself had normative constraints that functions as a higher end. I show how these normative constraints can be applied to the study of design.
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Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.
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