John Dewey

John Dewey (1859-1952) var den mest betydningsfulle utdanningsfilosof i det 20. århundre. Deweys viktigste bidrag som utdanningsfilosof kan sammenfattes i formuleringen "utdanning til demokrati". Han så på utdanning som det moderne demokratiets grunnpilar. Med litteraturliste.

This critical edition of ""The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought"", edited by Larry A. Hickman, presents the results of John Dewey's patient construction, over 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 essays - Dewey provides readers with an overview of the scope and direction of his philosophical vision in one volume. The order of the eleven essays is a reverse chronology, with the later essays appearing first. The collection offers a detailed portrait of Dewey's proposed reconstruction of the traditional concepts of knowledge and truth. It furthermore elaborates on how his new logic and his proposal regarding knowledge and truth fit comfortably together, not only with each other but also with a pragmatically proper understanding of belief, reality, and experience. Because ""The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953"" was published chronologically, however, the essays of the 1910 Darwin book also appear in over six volumes in the Collected Works. This new definitive edition restores a classic collection of essays authored and edited by John Dewey as they originally were published. The edition is presented with ancillary materials, including responses by Dewey's critics and his replies, and an introduction by Douglas Browning.

This critical edition of John Dewey's 1916 collection of writings on logic, ""Essays in Experimental Logic"" - in which Dewey presents his concept of logic as the theory of inquiry and his unique and innovative development of the relationship of inquiry to experience - is the first scholarly reprint of the work in one volume since 1954. ""Essays in Experimental Logic"" edited by D. Micah Hester and Robert B. Talisse uses the authoritative texts from the ""Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953"" (published by Southern Illinois University Press) and includes articles from leading journals representing various contemporary schools of philosophy, whose members critiqued Dewey's experimentalism. Culling material from six volumes of the chronologically arranged Collected Works, this single-volume edition of Essays marks a crucial point in Dewey's intellectual development: one in which Dewey critically engages idealistic and intuitionist theorists and lays the groundwork for his mature theory of inquiry. A new introduction by renowned Dewey scholar Tom Burke places Essays in philosophical and historical context. ""Essays in Experimental Logic"" also features five critiques by Dewey's contemporaries - Bertrand Russell, Wendell T. Bush, R. F. Alfred Hoernle, H. T. Costello, and C. S. Peirce, plus textual commentaries and a bibliography of secondary materials on Dewey's essays.

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