Susan Haack, a scholar of this thinker, hates Richard Rorty and played this philosopher in a play she wrote about Rorty and him. This thinker discussed how all acts of creation require "recognizing the germs of loveliness in the hateful" in his essay "Evolutionary Love." He discussed men who "cling spasmodically to the views they already take" and institutions designed to "keep correct doctrines" and "prevent contrary doctrines" as two (*) methods of deciding upon and keeping views and opinions, known as the methods of tenacity and authority. William James and, later, Richard Rorty continued a strain of philosophy largely inaugurated by this 
Susan Haack, a scholar of this thinker, hates Richard Rorty and played this philosopher in a play she wrote about Rorty and him. This thinker discussed how all acts of creation require "recognizing the germs of loveliness in the hateful" in his essay "Evolutionary Love." He discussed men who "cling spasmodically to the views they already take" and institutions designed to "keep correct doctrines" and "prevent contrary doctrines" as two (*) methods of deciding upon and keeping views and opinions, known as the methods of tenacity and authority. William James and, later, Richard Rorty continued a strain of philosophy largely inaugurated by this philosopher. For 10 points, name this American philosopher who wrote "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
Susan Haack, a scholar of this thinker, hates Richard Rorty and played this philosopher in a play she wrote about Rorty and him.
C.S. Peirce [or Charles Sanders Peirce] 