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Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality

Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality

Shook, John R.

Paperback

Series: Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 082651362X
ISBN13: 9780826513625
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Feb 16 2000
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of commentaries, critical editions, and reevaluations of Dewey's writings. While previous studies of Dewey's work have taken either a historical or a topical focus, Shook offers an innovative, organic approach to understanding Dewey and eloquently shows that Dewey's instrumentalism grew seamlessly out of his idealism. He argues that most current scholarship operates under a mistaken impression of Dewey's early philosophical positions and convincingly demonstrates a number of key points:

that Dewey's metaphysical empiricism remained more indebted to Kant and Hegel than is commonly supposed;

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