Dewey's Logical Theory

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

• ISBN13: 9780826513946
• ISBN10: 0826513948
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

Despite the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of John Dewey, his work on logical theory has received relatively little attention. Ironically, 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. All the essays are original to this volume and are written by leading Dewey scholars. Ranging from discussions of propositional theory to logic's social and ethical implications, these essays clarify often misunderstood or misrepresented aspects of Dewey's work, while emphasizing the seminal role of logic to Dewey's philosophical endeavors.This collection breaks new ground in its relevance to contemporary philosophy of logic and epistemology and pays special attention to applications in ethics and moral philosophy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Larry Hickman
Editors' Introduction	xi
Part I Situations, Experience, and Knowing	1	(118)
The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey's Ecological Theory of Experience	3	(24)
Thomas Alexander
Logic and Judgments of Practice	27	(16)
Jennifer Welchman
Experimental Logic: Normative Theory or Natural History?	43	(29)
Vincent Colapietro
The Logical Reconstruction of Experience: Dewey and Lewis	72	(21)
Sandra Rosenthal
Dewey and Quine on the Logic of What There Is	93	(26)
John Shook
Part II Logical Theory and Forms	119	(118)
Prospects for Mathematizing Dewey's Logical Theory	121	(39)
Tom Burke
Designation, Characterization, and Theory in Dewey's Logic	160	(20)
Douglas Browning
Dewey's Logical Forms	180	(22)
Hans Seigfried
The Role of Measurement in Inquiry	202	(23)
Jayne Tristan
Qualities, Universals, Kinds, and the New Riddle of Induction	225	(12)
Tom Burke
Part III Values and Social Inquiry	237	(50)
Achieving Pluralism (Why AIDS Activists Are Different from Creationists)	239	(23)
John Capps
The Teachers Union Fight and the Scope of Dewey's Logic	262	(13)
Michael Eldridge
Power/Inquiry: The Logic of Pragmatism	275	(12)
John Stuhr
About the Authors	287	(4)
Name Index	291	(2)
Subject Index	293