Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality

Author: John R. Shook
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513625
Category : Conocimiento, Teoría del
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of commentaries, critical editions, and reevaluations of Dewey's writings. While previous studies of Dewey's work have taken either a historical or a topical focus, Shook offers an innovative, organic approach to understanding Dewey and eloquently shows that Dewey's instrumentalism grew seamlessly out of his idealism. He argues that most current scholarship operates under a mistaken impression of Dewey's early philosophical positions and convincingly demonstrates a number of key points: that Dewey's metaphysical empiricism remained more indebted to Kant and Hegel than is commonly supposed; that Dewey owed more to the influence of Wundt than is commonly believed; that the influence of Peirce and James was not as significant for the development of Dewey's theories of mind and truth as has been argued in the past; and that Dewey's pragmatic theory of knowledge never really abandoned idealism. Shook's exposition of the unity of Dewey's thought challenges a large scholarly industry devoted to suppressing or explaining away the consistency between Dewey's early thought and his later work. In every respect, Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality is a provocative and engaging study that will occupy a unique niche in this field. It is certain to stimulate discussion and controversy, forcing Dewey traditionalists out of habitual modes of thought and transforming our conventional understanding of the development of classical American philosophy.

John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature

Author: Thomas M. Alexander
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887064265
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Thomas Alexander shows that the primary, guiding concern of Deweys philosophy is his theory of aesthetic experience. He directly challenges those critics, most notably Stephen Pepper and Benedetto Croce, who argued that this area is the least consistent part of Deweys thought. The author demonstrates that the fundamental concept in Deweys system is that of experience and that paradigmatic treatment of experience is to be found in Deweys analysis of aesthetics and art. The confusions resulting from the neglect of this orientation have led to prolonged misunderstandings, eventual neglect, and unwarranted popularity for ideas at odds with the genuine thrust of Deweys philosophical concerns. By exposing the underlying aesthetic foundations of Deweys philosophy, Alexander aims to rectify many of these errors, generating a fruitful new interest in Dewey.

Dewey's First Adventure

Author: Alecia Martino
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1617775231
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20

Book Description
Today is a big day for Dewey. Today, Dewey and millions of other raindrops will leave their home in the clouds and fall to the earth. Some of the other drops have been to earth before. But this is Dewey's first time, so he is excited and nervous. Will he go very far? Will it be difficult? Dewey's First Adventure provides a fun, informative look at Dewey's journey through all the steps of the water cycle.

John Dewey's Ethics

Author: Gregory Fernando Pappas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253351405
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 738

Book Description
A thorough, definitive account of Dewey's ethics

Dewey's Democracy and Education Revisited

Author: Patrick M. Jenlink
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1607091240
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
This book presents a collection of contemporary discourses that reconsider the relationship of democracy as a political ideology and American ideal (i.e., Dewey's progressivist ideas) and education as the foundation of preparing democratic citizens in America.

Dewey's New Logic

Author: Thomas Burke
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226080703
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Celebrated for his work in the philosophy of education and acknowledged as a leading proponent of American pragmatism, John Dewey might have had more of a reputation for his philosophy of logic had Bertrand Russell not so fervidly attacked him on the subject. This book analyzes the debate between Russell and Dewey that followed the 1938 publication of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, and argues that, despite Russell's early resistance, Dewey's logic is surprisingly relevant to recent developments in philosophy and cognitive science. Since Dewey's logic focuses on natural language in everyday experience, it poses a challenge to Russell's formal syntactic conception of logic. Tom Burke demonstrates that Russell misunderstood crucial aspects of Dewey's theory - his ideas on propositions, judgments, inquiry, situations, and warranted assertibility - and contends that logic today has progressed beyond Russell and is approaching Dewey's broader perspective. Burke relates Dewey's logic to issues in epistemology, philosophy of language and psychology, computer science, and formal semantics.

Dewey's Critical Pragmatism

Author: Alison Kadlec
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739115497
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Kadlec posits that it is in the realm of contemporary deliberative democratic theory and practice that the greatest significance of critical pragmatism lies."--BOOK JACKET.

John Dewey's Aesthetic Philosophy

Author: Philip M. Zeltner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789060320297
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description

Dewey's Ethical Thought

Author: Jennifer Welchman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
In the first book on the development ofJohn Dewey's ethical thought, Jennifer Welchman revises the prevalent interpretation of his ethics. Her clear and engaging account traces the history of Dewey's distinctive moral philosophy from its roots in idealism during the 1890s through the pragmatist approach of his 1922 work, Human Nature and Conduct. Central to the development of Dewey's ethics was his lifelong conviction that the realms of science and morals, facts and values were reconcilable. This conviction, Welchman demonstrates, drove Dewey to reject the orthodox ethics of his day in favor of radical alternatives--first absolute idealism and later pragmatism. She reveals how Dewey came to adopt and subsequently to modify idealist ethics of self-realization. Welchman then explores the transformations in Dewey's conception of science that exploded the fragile truce between fact and value that he had negotiated as an idealist. Finally, she examines how Dewey developed his own instrumentalist accounts of moral value, conduct, and character that culminated in his best-known work of ethics, Human Nature and Conduct.

In Dewey's Wake

Author: William J. Gavin
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791456309
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Leading scholars evaluate the importance of Dewey's work for our times.