Dewey's Logical Theory

by Burke, F. Thomas; Hester, D. Micah; Talisse, Robert B.; Hickman, Larry A.

• ISBN13: 9780826513687
• ISBN10: 0826513689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

John Dewey’s logic was his "first and last love." The essays in this collection pay tribute to that love by addressing Dewey's philosophy of logic, from his work at the beginning of the twentieth century to the culmination of his logical thought in the 1938 volume, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Editors' Introduction
Situations, Experience, and Knowing	p. 1
The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey's Ecological Theory of Experience	p. 3
Logic and Judgments of Practice	p. 27
Experimental Logic: Normative Theory or Natural History?	p. 43
The Logical Reconstruction of Experience: Dewey and Lewis	p. 72
Dewey and Quine on the Logic of What There Is	p. 93
Logical Theory and Forms	p. 119
Prospects for Mathematizing Dewey's Logical Theory	p. 121
Designation, Characterization, and Theory in Dewey's Logic	p. 160
Dewey's Logical Forms	p. 180
The Role of Measurement in Inquiry	p. 202
Qualities, Universals, Kinds, and the New Riddle of Induction	p. 225
Values and Social Inquiry	p. 237
Achieving Pluralism (Why AIDS Activists Are Different from Creationists)	p. 239
The Teachers Union Fight and the Scope of Dewey's Logic	p. 262
Power/Inquiry: The Logic of Pragmatism	p. 275
About the Authors	p. 287
Name Index	p. 291
Subject Index	p. 293
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