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Keep Juliette and refuse Johns Hopkins' lectureship - what would you do?
A brilliant thinker in rural Pennsylvania is denied a lectureship after a scandal; what would you do with that thought?
Keep Juliette and refuse Johns Hopkins' lectureship - what would you do?
In this episode, we follow Charles Sanders Peirce’s life between fieldwork and ideas, tracing how he developed foundations of logic, statistics, and computing while kept outside academia. What choices did he and the institutions around him make when a personal scandal intersected with professional power?
Person: Charles Sanders Peirce
Person: Juliette (Froissy or Pourtalai)
Person: Simon Newcomb
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