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" The Philosophy of John Dewey : "
by Robert E. Dewey.
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BL
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714914
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b537066
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by Robert E. Dewey.
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The Philosophy of John Dewey : : a Critical Exposition of His Method, Metaphysics, and Theory of Knowledge\ by Robert E. Dewey.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer, 1977
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9401745706
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: 9401747407
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: 9789401745703
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: 9789401747400
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I. Philosopher of Method --;1. Dewey's view of philosophy --;2. Dewey's instrumentalist theory of knowledge --;3. Dewey's emphasis on method in ethics, social philosophy, education, religion, and logic --;Conclusion --;II. Method and the Instrumentalist View of Man --;1. Dewey's description of the empirical method --;2. Dewey's philosophical starting point: man's primary experience as a unity of activity, undifferentiated by thought-distinctions --;3. Dewey's 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. Dewey's view of metaphysics --;2. Dewey's view of the world --;3. Nature and empirical method --;V. Change --;1. Structure and process --;2. Dewey's view as an alternative to the quest for substance and essence --;3. The dual role of events --;VI. Contingency --;1. Dewey's reasons for believing that there is contingency in nature --;2. Further clarification of Dewey's case for contingency and assessment of its significance --;VII. Knowledge --;1. Dewey's attack on the spectator view of knowledge --;2. Dewey's view of knowledge: its applications and limits --;VIII. Toward a Broader Empiricism --;1. Review of themes and difficulties in Dewey's philosophy --;2. The quest for essence.
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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.
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Metaphysics.
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Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Robert E Dewey
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