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The Philosophy of John Dewey
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John Dewey (1859-1952)
  • To study John Dewey is to study America.

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Burlington, Vermont
  • Overcoming these separations became for Dewey
    both the way of individual freedom and growth and
    the road to social justice.

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Unifying the Ideal the Real
  • Finding the way to unify the ideal and the real
    in contemporary democratic technological culture
    is Deweys central concern as a thinker.

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Columbia University
  • In the pragmatic fashion the goal of logical
    instrumentalism was not to answer theoretical
    questions but to solve problems and resolve
    conflicts.

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What is Truth?
  • What was observed was observed how we used this
    was the truth--there was no universal truth out
    there waiting to be discovered.

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Functional Knowledge
  • Scientists did not concern themselves with the
    problem of whether they had in fact discovered
    anything at all. They didnt ask what knowledge
    was, they produced it.

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Deweys Home
  • A liberal democracy gave its members the
    opportunity to grow as human beings, to enlarge
    their experience and realize their full potential
    as individuals.

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Columbia
  • To enter deeply into Deweys life and thought is
    to experience the soul of American culture
    wrestling with its meaning and destiny in one of
    its most profound expressions.

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Organic Truth
  • Dewey is on to something important when he sees
    truth as organic, as something alive and growing,
    rather than immobile and static.
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