The Philosophy of John Dewey

by McDermott, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780226144016
• ISBN10: 0226144011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

John J. McDermott's anthology,The Philosophy of John Dewey, provides the best general selection available of the writings of America's most distinguished philosopher and social critic. This comprehensive collection, ideal for use in the classroom and indispensable for anyone interested in the wide scope of Dewey's thought and works, affords great insight into his role in the history of ideas and the basic integrity of his philosophy. This edition combines in one book the two volumes previously published separately. Volume 1, "The Structure of Experience," contains essays on metaphysics, the logic of inquiry, the problem of knowledge, and value theory. In volume 2, "The Lived Experience," Dewey's writings on pedagogy, ethics, the aesthetics of the "live creature," politics, and the philosophy of culture are presented. McDermott has prefaced each essay with a helpful explanatory note and has written an excellent general introduction to the anthology.

Table of Contents

The Structure of Experience Preface to the Phoenix Edition

Preface

Introduction

Notes Chronology

Bibliography Editor's Note on the Text I. Historical Roots and Reflections

From Absolutism to Experimentalism

Kant and Philosophic Method

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy

The Development of American Pragmatism

The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy

Early Psychological Writings

The Psychological Standpoint

Psychology as Philosophic Method

The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology

The Psychology of Effort

The Experience of Knowing

"Consciousness" and Experience

The Experimental Theory of Knowledge

Experience and Objective Idealism

The Practical Character of Reality

The Pattern of Inquiry

The Metaphysics of Experience

The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism

Experience and Philosophic Method

Existence as Precarious and Stable

Experience, Nature and Art

Existence, Value and Criticism

Volume II The Lived Experience

The Culture of Inquiry

Escape from Peril

Philosophy's Search for the Immutable

Science and Society

Social Inquiry

Experience is Pedagogical

Interest in Relation to the Training of the Will

My Pedagogic Creed

The School and Social Progress

The Child and the Curriculum

Education as Growth

Experience and Thinking

The Need of a Theory of Experience

Criteria of Experience

Experience as Aesthetic

The Live Creature

The Live Creature and "Etherial Things"

Having an Experience

Experience as Problematic: Ethical, Religious, Political, and Social Dimensions

The Construction of Good

The Lost Individual

Toward a New Individualism

Search for the Great Community

Renascent Liberalism

The Problem of Freedom

Culture and Human Nature

The Human Abode and the Religious Function

Morality Is Social

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