Talk:Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography

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[edit] Notes & Queries

Jon Awbrey 14:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

  • JA: I'm dropping the ISBN's. If there were just one numb for each "book", that would be one thing, but I'm wasting way too much time and eyestrain trying to sort out the various hard-&-soft-cover variants, not to mention trying to track down numbs for definitive printings that I don't happen to have on hand. They also make for "cognitive resource intensive" (CRI) reading, especially when they sit next to a date of publication, flushing the short term memory buffer of the more important data thereof. Jon Awbrey 14:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
  • JA: It may be useful to outline the general principles of citation that I am following in this bibliography. There are two main considerations that I have tried to keep in mind throughout, the first having to do with the character of the source material and the second having to with the human factors of online reading. Jon Awbrey 16:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
  • JA: (1) As with any writer who generates a complex primary literature — parts of which are published in his or her lifetime and reprinted multiple times afterwards, and parts of which are unpublished "humously" but published in multiple exhumations and subsequent redactions — and one who incites an equally complex secondary literature that develops over multiple centuries, the Peirce corpus demands a level of detail and organization that the style sheets appropriate to our more ephemeral research journals simply fail to anticipate. Procrustean attempts to fit a body of work to these styles of short-sheeting is bound to result in both destruction and distortion of bibliographic information. A style sheet that destroys or distorts substantial information is not a fit style sheet, and will not be used here. Jon Awbrey 16:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ISBN unnecessary

The common practice in Wiki to include ISBNs in references is plain silly. You don't need the ISBN when you go to the library, buy on Amazon, or place a special order in a bookstore.

  • JA: Response to unsigned remark above. Yes, I tend to agree. So far, I've preserved the ISBN's only in cases where it was necessary to refer to a particular set of volumes. Jon Awbrey 15:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
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