The Cambridge Companion to Dewey (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) PDF
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the cambridge companion to DEWEY Each volume of this series of companions to major philoso- phers contains specially commissioned essays by an inter- national team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography,andwillserveasareferenceworkforstudents and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the workofadifficultandchallengingthinker. John Dewey (1859–1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was instrumental to its articula- tion as a philosophy and the spread of its influence beyond philosophytootherdisciplines.Hisprolificwritingsencom- pass metaphysics; philosophy of mind; cognitive science; psychology; moral philosophy; the philosophies of religion, art,andeducation;anddemocraticpoliticalandinternational theory. The contributors to this Companion examine the widerangeofDewey’sthoughtandprovideacriticalevalua- tionofhisphilosophyanditslastinginfluence. Newreaderswillfindthisthemostconvenient,accessible guide to Dewey currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in theinterpretationofDewey. molly cochran is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach(1999). other volumes in the series of cambridge companions ABELARD Editedbyjeffrey e. brower andkevin guilfoy ADORNO Editedbythomas huhn ANSELM Editedbybrian davies andbrian leftow AQUINAS Editedbynorman kretzmann and eleonore stump ARABIC PHILOSOPHY Editedbypeter adamson andrichard c. taylor HANNAH ARENDT Editedbydana villa ARISTOTLE Editedbyjonathan barnes ATHEISM Editedbymichael martin AUGUSTINE Editedbyeleonorestumpandnorman kretzmann BACON Editedbymarkku peltonen BERKELEY Editedbykenneth p. winkler BRENTANO Editedbydale jacquette CARNAP Editedbymichael friedman andrichard creath CRITICAL THEORY Editedbyfred rush DARWIN 2ndednEditedbyjonathan hodge and gregory radick SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Editedbyclaudia card DESCARTES Editedbyjohn cottingham DUNS SCOTUS Editedbythomas williams EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Editedbya.a. long EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY Editedbydonald rutherford FEMINISM IN PHILOSOPHY Editedbymiranda fricker andjennifer hornsby FOUCAULT 2ndednEditedbygary gutting FREGE Editedbythomas ricketts and michael potter FREUD Editedbyjerome neu GADAMER Editedbyrobert j. dostal GALEN Editedbyr.j. hankinson GALILEO Editedbypeter machamer GERMAN IDEALISM Editedbykarl ameriks GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY Editedby david sedley HABERMAS Editedbystephen k. white HAYEK Editedbyedward feser HEGEL Editedbyfrederick c. beiser HEGEL AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY Editedbyfrederick c. beiser HEIDEGGER 2ndednEditedbycharles guignon HOBBES Editedbytom sorell HOBBES’S ‘LEVIATHAN’ Editedbypatricia springborg HUME 2ndednEditedbydavid fate norton and jacqueline taylor HUSSERL Editedbybarry smith anddavid woodruff smith WILLIAM JAMES Editedbyruth anna putnam KANT Editedbypaul guyer KANT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY Editedby paul guyer KEYNES Editedbyroger e. backhouse andbradley w. bateman KIERKEGAARD Editedbyalastair hannay and gordon marino LEIBNIZ Editedbynicholas jolley LEVINAS Editedbysimon critchley and robert bernasconi LOCKE Editedbyvere chappell LOCKE’S ‘ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING’ Editedbylex newman LOGICAL EMPIRICISM Editedbyalanrichardson andthomas uebel MAIMONIDES Editedbykenneth seeskin MALEBRANCHE Editedbysteven nadler MARX Editedbyterrell carver MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY Editedby daniel h. frank andoliver leaman MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Editedbya.s. mcgrade MERLEAU-PONTY Editedbytaylor carman and mark b.n. hansen MILL Editedbyjohn skorupski MONTAIGNE Editedbyullrich langer NEWTON Editedbyi.bernard cohen andgeorge e. smith NIETZSCHE Editedbybernd magnus andkathleen higgins OCKHAM Editedbypaul vincent spade THE ‘ORIGIN OF SPECIES’ Editedbymichael ruse androbert j. richards PASCAL Editedbynicholas hammond PEIRCE Editedbycheryl misak THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY Editedbydavid l. hull andmichael ruse PLATO Editedbyrichard kraut PLATO’S ‘REPUBLIC’ Editedbyg.r.f. ferrari PLOTINUS Editedbylloyd p. gerson QUINE Editedbyroger f. gibson RAWLS Editedbysamuel freeman RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY Editedby james hankins THOMAS REID Editedbyterence cuneo and rene´ van woudenberg ROUSSEAU Editedbypatrick riley BERTRAND RUSSELL Editedbynicholas griffin SARTRE Editedbychristina howells SCHOPENHAUER Editedbychristopher janaway THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT Editedby alexander broadie ADAM SMITH Editedbyknud haakonssen SPINOZA Editedbydon garrett THE STOICS Editedbybrad inwood TOCQUEVILLE Editedbycheryl b. welch WITTGENSTEIN Editedbyhans sluga and david stern The Cambridge Companion to DEWEY Edited by Molly Cochran GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore, SãoPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress, NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521874564 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2010 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2010 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata TheCambridgecompaniontoDewey/editedbyMollyCochran. p. cm.–(Cambridgecompanionstophilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferences. isbn978-0-521-87456-4–isbn978-0-521-69746-0(pbk.) 1. Dewey,John,1859–1952. I. Cochran,Molly,1967– II. Title. III. Series. B945.D44C36 2010 191–dc22 2009054022 isbn-13:978-0-521-87456-4Hardback isbn-13:978-0-521-69746-0Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtoin thispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis, orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. contents Listofcontributors pagexi Methodofcitation xiv Chronologyofthelifeandwork ofJohnDewey xv Introduction molly cochran 1 1 Themakingofademocraticphilosopher:the intellectualdevelopmentofJohnDewey robert westbrook 13 2 Dewey’sepistemology ruth anna putnam 34 3 ThenaturalismofJohnDewey richard m. gale 55 4 Dewey’slogicofinquiry isaac levi 80 5 TheprimacyofpracticeinDewey’sexperimental empiricism j.e. tiles 101 6 CognitivescienceandDewey’stheoryofmind, thought,andlanguage mark johnson 123 7 JohnDeweyandaction matthias jung 145 ix
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