Essays in Experimental Logic

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Authors: John Dewey In Year : 1916

Book Language: English

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Prefatory Note
I. Introduction (§ I - IV)
I. Introduction (§ V-VII)
II. The Relationship of Thought and Its Subject Matter
III. The Antecedents and Stimuli of Thinking
IV. Data and Meaning
V. The Objects of Thought
VI. Some Stages of Logical Thought
VII. The Logical Character of Ideas
VIII. The Control of Ideas by Facts
IX. Naive Realism Vs. Presentative Realism
X. Epistemological Realism: The Alleged Ubiquity of the Knowledge Relation
XI. The Existence of the World as a Logical Problem
XII. What Pragmatism Means by Practical
XIII. An Added Note as to the 'Practical'
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Their Nature
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Judgments of Value I and II
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Judgments of Value III, IV, V
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Sense Perception as Knowledge
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Science as a Practical Art
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Theory and Practice

In this early collection of formative essays, acclaimed American philosopher John Dewey argues that the idealistic, realistic, and analytic schools of philosophy fail to take into account the pragmatic and experimental nature of experience - common to science and practical experience, but alien to the abstract theorizing of coherentist and correspondence theories of logic. Here we find the essential groundwork for the mature naturalistic and process-oriented metaphysics that Dewey would elaborate in his later mature works such as Experience and Nature and Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. In his long introduction, Dewey provides a summary and precis of his experimental logic, taking specifically pains to contrast his approach with the emerging analytic logic of Russell and Frege. Chapters 3-6 take aim at the idealistic logic dominant in his time by providing a close reading and critique of the German logician Hermann Lotze. Chapters 7-8 argue for the distinction between acquaintance with an external reality and knowledge of that reality. Rather than disembodied and abstract, Dewey describes a logic arising out of the concrete interactions of organisms embedded within a natural environment. Dewey's logic of experience is essential to an understanding of his various projects, from education, to art, politics, pragmatism, and science. (Summary by P. J. Taylor)