Author | Dewey, Robert E. author |
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Title | The Philosophy of John Dewey [electronic resource] : A Critical Exposition of His Method, Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge / by Robert E. Dewey |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9666-3 |
Descript | XIII, 180 p. online resource |
I. Philosopher of Method -- 1. Deweyโs view of philosophy -- 2. Deweyโs instrumentalist theory of knowledge -- 3. Deweyโs emphasis on method in ethics, social philosophy, education, religion, and logic -- Conclusion -- II. Method and the Instrumentalist View of Man -- 1. Deweyโs description of the empirical method -- 2. Deweyโs philosophical starting point: manโs primary experience as a unity of activity, undifferentiated by thought-distinctions -- 3. Deweyโs instrumentalist view of man and its relationship to his recommendation of the empirical method -- Conclusion -- III. Scientific Foundations of the Instrumentalist View of Man -- 1. Biology -- 2. Psychology -- 3. Social theories -- Conclusion -- IV. The Instrumentalist View of the World -- 1. Deweyโs view of metaphysics -- 2. Deweyโs view of the world -- 3. Nature and empirical method -- V. Change -- 1. Structure and process -- 2. Deweyโs view as an alternative to the quest for substance and essence -- 3. The dual role of events -- VI. Contingency -- 1. Deweyโs reasons for believing that there is contingency in nature -- 2. Further clarification of Deweyโs case for contingency and assessment of its significance -- VII. Knowledge -- 1. Deweyโs attack on the spectator view of knowledge -- 2. Deweyโs view of knowledge: its applications and limits -- VIII. Toward a Broader Empiricism -- 1. Review of themes and difficulties in Deweyโs philosophy -- 2. The quest for essence