Analytic Philosophy and the Critical Reception of John Dewey's Pragmatic Philosophy

This book examines the critical reception of Dewey’s pragmatic philosophy by six prominent analytic philosophers and relates it to the contested history of analytic philosophy and Deweyan pragmatism. It argues that analytic philosophers’ critical reception of Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy has, from the very beginning, been marred by externalist readings that do not engage with Dewey’s thinking from the inside, and suggests that this throws doubt upon the new revisionary histories of analyti...