The Philosophy of John Dewey: Volume 1. The Structure of Experience. Volume 2: The Lived Experience

by John Dewey, John J. McDermott (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226144016
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/15/1981
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	766
Sales rank:	1,145,021
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of progressive education and liberalism. In 1894 Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago (1894-1904) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy. His time at the University of Chicago resulted in four essays collectively entitled Thought and its Subject-Matter, which was published with collected works from his colleagues at Chicago under the collective title Studies in Logical Theory (1903). During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress (1899). In 1899, Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association. From 1904 until his retirement in 1930 he was professor of philosophy at both Columbia University and Columbia University's Teachers College. In 1905 he became president of the American Philosophical Association. He was a longtime member of the American Federation of Teachers.

Table of Contents

Volume I: 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
1. From Absolutism to Experimentalism
2. Kant and Philosophic Method
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy
5. The Development of American Pragmatism
6. The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy
II. Early Psychological Writings
7. The Psychological Standpoint
8. Psychology as Philosophic Method
9. The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology
10. The Psychology of Effort
III. The Experience of Knowing
11. "Consciousness" and Experience
12. The Experimental Theory of Knowledge
13. Experience and Objective Idealism
14. The Practical Character of Reality
15. The Pattern of Inquiry
IV. The Metaphysics of Experience
16. The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism
17. Experience and Philosophic Method
18. Existence as Precarious and Stable
19. Experience, Nature and Art
20. Existence, Value and Criticism
Volume II: The Lived Experience
V. The Culture of Inquiry
21. Escape from Peril
22. Philosophy's Search for the Immutable
23. Science and Society
24. Social Inquiry
VI. Experience is Pedagogical
25. Interest in Relation to the Training of the Will
26. My Pedagogic Creed
27. The School and Social Progress
28. The Child and the Curriculum
29. Education as Growth
30. Experience and Thinking
31. The Need of a Theory of Experience
32. Criteria of Experience
VII. Experience as Aesthetic
33. The Live Creature
34. The Live Creature and "Etherial Things"
35. Having an Experience
VIII. Experience as Problematic: Ethical, Religious, Political, and Social Dimensions
36. The Construction of Good
37. The Lost Individual
38. Toward a New Individualism
39. Search for the Great Community
40. Renascent Liberalism
41. The Problem of Freedom
42. Culture and Human Nature
43. The Human Abode and the Religious Function
44. Morality Is Social