Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Pragmatism

Jerome A. Popp examines the role of Dewey-based pragmatism in the past, present, and future of philosophy of education. He insists that even though Marx-ian utopian thought subjugated Dewey s ideas during the 1970s, Dewey s epistemological arguments are directly relevant to contemporary philosophy. He contends that not only are Dewey s arguments related to how we think about philosophy of education; they actually improve the thinking reflected in the literature. Dewey s arguments, he demonstrates, provide the basis for both a rejuvenated account of conceptual analysis and a criticism of...

"Experience and Value: Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism "brings together twelve philosophical essays spanning the career of noted Dewey scholar, S. Morris Eames. The volume includes both critiques and interpretations of important issues in John Dewey s value theory as well as the application of Eames s pragmatic naturalism in addressing contemporary problems in social theory, education, and religion.

The collection begins with a discussion of the underlying principles of Dewey s pragmatic naturalism, including the concepts of nature, experience, and philosophic method....

Presenting Dewey s new view of philosophical inquiry

This critical edition of "The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought "presents the results of John Dewey s patient construction, throughout the previous sixteen years, of the radically new view of the methods and concerns of philosophical inquiry. It was a view that he continued to defend for the rest of his life.

In the 1910 "The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought"the first collection of Dewey s previously published, edited essaysJohn Dewey provided readers...

This eleventh volume of a projected twelve continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that began with volume 4. Consisting of some 500 letters, with an additional 650 letters calendared, volume 11 gives a complete accounting of James's known correspondence from April 1905 through March 1908.

Several major professional events in James's career occur during this period, including his California adventure--a semester of teaching at Stanford University in the spring of 1906 that is interrupted by the San Francisco earthquake on April 18....

An examination of philosophical realism from the standpoint of pragmatic epistemology, this book addresses the core idea of Rescher's work in epistemology: that functional and pragmatic concerns exert a controlling influence on the conduct of rational inquiry and on the ways in which we can and should regard its products.

Pragmatism is widely regarded as a philosophical approach that stands at odds with realism, but Rescher takes a very different approach. He views pragmatism as a realistic position that can be developed from a pragmatic point of view, and utilizes a number of case...