Becoming John Dewey : dilemmas of a philosopher and naturalist
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Becoming John Dewey : dilemmas of a philosopher and naturalist
Indiana University Press, c2002
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Includes bibliography (p. [345]-364) and index
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Description
As one of America's "public intellectuals," John Dewey was engaged in a lifelong struggle to understand the human mind and the nature of human inquiry. According to Thomas C. Dalton, the successful pursuit of this mission demanded that Dewey become more than just a philosopher; it compelled him to become thoroughly familiar with the theories and methods of physics, psychology, and neurosciences, as well as become engaged in educational and social reform. Tapping archival sources and Dewey's extensive correspondence, Dalton reveals that Dewey had close personal and intellectual ties to scientists and scholars who helped form the mature expression of his thought. Dewey's relationships with F. M. Alexander, Henri Matisse, Niels Bohr, Myrtle McGraw, and Lawrence K. Frank, among others, show how Dewey dispersed pragmatism throughout American thought and culture.
Table of Contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Originality in Social Context
Part 1. Sublime Reason and the Comforts of Doubt
1. From Calvinism to Evolutionism
2. Healing an "Inward Laceration"
3. Experimentalist in the Making
Part 2. Rendezvous with the New York Avant Garde
4. Contrasting Strategies of Educational Innovation
5. Cultural Disillusionment
6. The Evolution of Mind in Nature
Part 3. The Transformational Potential of Consciousness in Art, Politics, and Science
7. Post-Impressionism, Quantum Mechanics, and the Triumph of Phenomenal Experience
8. Communities of Intelligence and the Politics of Spirit
9. The Function of Judgment in Inquiry
10. Locomotion as a Metaphor for Mind
Part 4. Naturalism Lost and Found
11. Cultural Pragmatism and the Disappearance of Dewey's Naturalism
Conclusion: The Revival of Dewey's Naturalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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