Dewey S Empirical Theory Of Knowledge And Reality

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Conocimiento, Teoría del
ISBN : 082651362X

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Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality by John R. Shook Pdf

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.

Author : NA Dewey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401747400

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The Philosophy of John Dewey by NA Dewey Pdf

John Dewey ranks as the most influential of America's philosophers. That in fluence stems, in part, from the originality of his mind, the breadth of his in terests, and his capacity to synthesize materials from diverse sources. In addi tion, Dewey was blessed with a long life and the extraordinary energy to express his views in more than 50 books, approximately 750 articles, and at least 200 contributions to encyclopedias. He has made enduring intellectual contributions in all of the traditional fields of philosophy, ranging from studies primarily of interest for philosophers in logic, epistemology, and metaphysics to books and articles of wider appeal in ethics, political philosophy, religion, aesthetics, and education. Given the extent of Dewey's own writings and the many books and articles on his views by critics and defenders, it may be asked why there is a need for any further examination of his philosophy. The need arises because the lapse of time since his death in 1952 now permits a new generation of scholars to approach his work in a different spirit. Dewey is no longer a living partisan of causes, sparking controversy over the issues of the day. He is no longer the advocate of a new point of view which calls into question the basic assump tions of rival philosophical schools and receives an almost predictable criticism from their entrenched positions. His works have now become classics.

Author : James Scott Johnston
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438453460

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John Dewey's Earlier Logical Theory by James Scott Johnston Pdf

When John Dewey's logical theory is discussed, the focus is invariably on his 1938 book Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. His earlier logical works are seldom referenced except in relation to that later work. As a result, Dewey's earlier logical theory is cut off from his later work, and this later work receives a curiously ahistorical gloss. Examining the earlier works from Studies in Logical Theory to Essays in Experimental Logic, James Scott Johnston provides an unparalleled account of the development of Dewey's thinking in logic, examining various themes and issues Dewey felt relevant to a systematic logical theory. These include the context in which logical theory operates, the ingredients of logical inquiry, the distinctiveness of an instrumentalist logical theory, and the benefit of logical theory to practical concerns—particularly ethics and education. Along the way, and complicating the standard picture of Dewey's logic being indebted to Charles S. Peirce, William James, and Charles Darwin, Johnston argues that Hegel is ultimately a more important influence.

Author : James Scott Johnston
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438479439

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John Dewey's Later Logical Theory by James Scott Johnston Pdf

By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an adequate account of experience suitable to explain how our immediate experiencing becomes the material for logical sequences, series, and causal relations. Nor did he have a refined account of judging, propositions, and conceptions. Above all, his theory of continuity—central to all of his logical endeavors—was rudimentary. The years 1916–1937 saw Dewey remedy these deficiencies. We see in his published and unpublished articles, books, lecture notes and correspondence, the pursuit of a line of thinking that would lead to his magnum opus. John Dewey's Later Logical Theory follows Dewey through his path from Essays in Experimental Logic to the publication of Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, and complements James Scott Johnston's earlier volume, John Dewey's Earlier Logical Theory.

Author : Steven Fesmire
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253110664

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John Dewey and Moral Imagination by Steven Fesmire Pdf

While examining the important role of imagination in making moral judgments, John Dewey and Moral Imagination focuses new attention on the relationship between American pragmatism and ethics. Steven Fesmire takes up threads of Dewey's thought that have been largely unexplored and elaborates pragmatism's distinctive contribution to understandings of moral experience, inquiry, and judgment. Building on two Deweyan notions -- that moral character, belief, and reasoning are part of a social and historical context and that moral deliberation is an imaginative, dramatic rehearsal of possibilities -- Fesmire shows that moral imagination can be conceived as a process of aesthetic perception and artistic creativity. Fesmire's original readings of Dewey shed new light on the imaginative process, human emotional make-up and expression, and the nature of moral judgment. This original book presents a robust and distinctly pragmatic approach to ethics, politics, moral education, and moral conduct.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Great Books in Philosophy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1573921378

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Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays by John Dewey Pdf

Originally published: New York: H. Holt and Co., 1910.

Author : James Allan Good
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739113607

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A Search for Unity in Diversity by James Allan Good Pdf

The humanistic/historicist Hegel -- American Hegelianism, 1830-1900 -- Dewey in Burlington and Baltimore, 1859-1884 -- Dewey in Michigan, 1884-1894 -- Dewey's transitional years, 1894-1904 -- From actualism to brutalism, 1904-1916.

Author : John R. Shook,James Allan Good
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823231386

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John Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit, with the 1897 Lecture on Hegel by John R. Shook,James Allan Good Pdf

This book furthers the research begun in John Shook's "Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality" (2000) and James Good's "A Search for Unity in Diversity: The 'Permanent Hegelian Deposit' in the Philosophy of John Dewey" (2006). Both authors have countered the traditional narrative of Dewey's intellectual development by arguing that he never made a clean break from Hegel. This volume explores Dewey's philosophy of religion in general and his inheritance of a 'philosophy of spirit' from Hegel in particular. Shook and Good agree that Dewey did have a philosophy of spirit, that it was heavily indebted to Hegelian themes, and that Dewey's mature philosophy of religion is a key component of his social and political theory. In addition to Dewey's 1897 lecture on Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, the book contains an essay by Shook that examines the role of religion throughout Dewey's oeuvre, and an essay by Good that closely analyzes Dewey's lecture. The primary thrust of the volume is to demonstrate that Dewey's understanding of the functions of religion, religious experience, and democratic politics are profoundly indebted to Hegel. Of special significance for Dewey's maturing thought is his historicist and progressive view of Hegel's treatment of freedom, religion, morality, and politics. For Dewey, Hegel's philosophy of spirit leads directly towards the democratic fellowship of common humanity, which becomes the cornerstone of Dewey's own politics

Author : Roberto Gronda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030375621

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Dewey's Philosophy of Science by Roberto Gronda Pdf

This monograph presents a unitary account of Dewey’s philosophy of science and demonstrates the relevance for contemporary debates. The book is written from a theoretical angle and explains Dewey's via on Experience, Language, Inquiry, Construction and Realism. Via taking this route the book addresses key philosophical problems - such as the nature of language, the idea of experience, the notion of logical constructivism, the criticism of representationalism and the nature of scientific practices. John Dewey (1859-1952) is one of the most representative philosophers of the United States. He is well known for his work in education, psychology and social reform and one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism. His Philosophy of Science underwent a period of almost total unpopularity and neglect. In recent times, however, as a consequence of the strong pragmatist renaissance we are now witnessing, Dewey’s philosophy of science has attracted new attention. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of Dewey's philosophy of science and will be of interest to scholars working in nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy of science and on the relationship between Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism.

Author : Simon Susen,Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783082971

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The Spirit of Luc Boltanski by Simon Susen,Bryan S. Turner Pdf

What is the relevance of Luc Boltanski’s ‘pragmatic sociology of critique’ to central issues in contemporary social and political analysis? In seeking to respond to this question, this book contains critical commentaries from prominent social theorists attempting to map out the influence and broad scope of Boltanski’s oeuvre.

Author : Molly Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521874564

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The Cambridge Companion to Dewey by Molly Cochran Pdf

John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. The contributors to this Companion examine the wide range of Dewey's thought and provide a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791481950

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Inquiry and Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norbert J. Fleckenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Reality
ISBN : UOM:39015002841453

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A Critique of John Dewey's Theory of the Nature and the Knowledge of Reality in the Light of the Principles of Thomism by Norbert J. Fleckenstein Pdf

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547167280

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Essays in Experimental Logic by John Dewey Pdf

This book is a collection of essays that contains 14 of Dewey's most profound papers on a wide range of topics including knowledge, reality, and epistemology. These essays are based on the theory that knowledge implies a judgment resulting from a study. The presence of this "inquiry stage" implies an intermediate and mediating phase between the external world and knowledge, which is influenced by other factors. These essays build on this foundation by looking at the relationship between thought and its subject matter, the antecedents and stimuli of thought, data, and meanings, the objects of thought, the control of ideas by facts, and other related topics. Three essays describe different types of philosophical realism. The first examines Bertrand Russell's principle about "our knowledge of the external world as a field for scientific method"; the other two discuss pragmatism, distinguishing Dewey's position from that of James and Peirce. These essays present their author's most straightforward explanation of his philosophy. The "Stage of Logical Thought" section examines the role of the scientific method in philosophy, and the final essay gives a compelling theory of the logic of values.

Author : Brian S. Dixon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030474713

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Dewey and Design by Brian S. Dixon Pdf

Over the last four decades, John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schön’s theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design. Taking these existing connections as a starting point, Brian Dixon explores how deeper alignments may be drawn between Dewey’s insights and contemporary design research’s concern with practice, meaning and collaboration. Chapter by chapter, a fresh intellectual approach is revealed, one which recognises the transformative power of doing, making and knowing as a force for positive change in the world. We see that, for Dewey, experience comes first. It connects us to surrounding world and the society of which we are part; good things can happen and new realities are possible—we just have to work for them. The implications for design research are vast. We are offered a new way of understanding designerly knowledge production, as well as the methodological implications of adopting Deweyan pragmatism in design research. Taken as a whole, Dewey and Design not only draws out the value of Dewey’s work for design research but also, crucially, offers a clear articulation of the value of design itself.