Introduction: reading Peirce's pragmatism -- Pragmatic methods of reading and interpretation -- Problems in Peirce's early critique of Cartesianism -- Problems in Peirce's early theory of pragmatism -- Problems in Peirce's normative theory of pragmatism, 1878-1903 -- A pragmatic reading of Peirce's lectures on pragmatism -- Irremediable vagueness in Peirce's pragmaticist writings: a plain-sense reading -- Pragmaticism reread: from common-sense to the logic of scripture