Dewey
By: Steven Fesmire.
Series: Routledge philosophers
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780415782753
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Introduction; title: 1. Life and works.; title: Are you right with Jesus, John?; title: From absolutism to experimentalism; title: Educator, educated; title: The philosopher of the progressive era; title: The philosopher of democracy at home and abroad; title: Retirement?; title: Reading Dewey and the "lost" book; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 2. Metaphysics reconstructed.; title: Metaphysics in a moving world; title: The revolt against dualism; title: Cultural existence in nature as situated; title: Mapping our milieu; title: Experience as cultural inhabitation of nature; title: Hypostatization: the philosophical fallacy; title: Critique of Dewey's map: the animal plane; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 3. Epistemology reconstructed.; title: Dismantling the epistemology industry; title: The "Oh" of problems, the "Hmm" of inquiries, and the "Good" of judgments; title: Deerstalker hats and construction hard hats; title: The mirror of nature; title: Some truths about the truth I : pragmatism and experimental method; title: Some truths about the truth II : Dewey's instrumentalism; title: The ends-means continuum : why warranted assertibility is not truthiness; title: Dewey on meaning in the context of analytic philosophy; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 4. Ethics reconstructed.; title: Multidimensional moral experience; title: Dewey's ethical writings; title: Facts and values; title: Moral imagination; title: The starting point and principles; title: In praise of theory; title: The social basis of character; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 5. Social-political and educational philosophy reconstructed.; title: The democratic ideal; title: The experimental attitude and the democratic ideal; title: Emergent individualism; title: Radicalism for grown-ups; title: Liberalism, old and new; title: Democracy begins in conversation; title: Democratic education vs. industrial education; title: Progressive pedagogy in moral education; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 6. Aesthetics and technology reconstructed.; title: Consummations; title: Experience in its integrity; title: The work of art and generative form; title: The aesthetics of moral life; title: Qualitative thought; title: Art, science, and instrumentalism; title: Does technology corrupt?; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 7. Religious philosophy reconstructed.; title: Doctrinal religion vs. the religious attitude; title: Democracy as community and communion; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading; title: 8. Influence and legacy.; title: Environmental pragmatism; title: Dewey in contemporary social-political philosophy and ethics; title: Dewey in dialogue; title: Conclusion; title: Summary; title: Notes; title: Further reading