The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey's Conception of Philosophy - Softcover

Sleeper, R.W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252069544 ISBN 13: 9780252069543

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2001

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Hailed as "the most important overall reassessment of Dewey in several decades" (Sidney Ratner, Journal of Speculative Philosophy), The Necessity of Pragmatism investigates the most difficult and neglected aspects of Dewey's thought, his metaphysics and logic. R. W. Sleeper argues for a fundamental unity in Dewey's work, a unity that rests on his philosophy of language, and clarifies Dewey's conception of pragmatism as an action-based philosophy with the power to effect social change through criticism and inquiry.

Identifying Dewey's differences with his pragmatist forerunners, Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, Sleeper elucidates Dewey's reshaping of pragmatism and the radical significance of his philosophy of culture. In this first paperback edition, a new introduction by Tom Burke establishes the ongoing importance of Sleeper's analysis of the integrity of Dewey's work and its implications for mathematics, aesthetics, and the cognitive sciences.

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R. W. Sleeper was professor of philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York and the author of numerous essays concerning pragmatic philosophy. Tom Burke is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and the author of Dewey's New Logic: A Reply to Russell.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252069544
• ISBN 13: 9780252069543
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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