Stanley Cavell on the Emersonian and the pragmatist Deweyan. From Wordnik.com. ["This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.] Reference
Li and Chen became Communists, Lu Xun a nonparty leftist, and Hu a Deweyan liberal. From Wordnik.com. [1919, March] Reference
˜Inquiry as Critique: On the Legacy of Deweyan Pragmatism for Political Theory™, Political Studies, 49, 2001. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Political Philosophy] Reference
On the whole, Hook did not seek to develop a bridge between Deweyan naturalism and the works of ordinary language philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Both Deweyan pragmatism and logical positivism championed the methods of the natural sciences as the paradigm for human knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
For Stevenson, dispute over Deweyan norms or appraisals would represent a pattern that he identified as “disagreement-in-belief.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
This strand of pro-Deweyan thinking has also been recently pursued by Crispin Sartwell in response to multi-culturalism and everyday aesthetics. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference
Hook's belief in the primacy of scientific method presupposed the Peircian and Deweyan account of a generalized methodology for all the sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Hook, as an ethical naturalist, shares the Deweyan view that is developed in that chapter that the term “Good” can be understood by reference to the. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
"In that circle," Rorty tells us, "American patriotism, redistributionist economics, anticommunism, and Deweyan pragmatism went together easily and naturally.". From Wordnik.com. [Richard Rorty] Reference
This tendency was evidenced by the popularity achieved by the writings of theological critics of Deweyan ethical naturalism such as Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
His idea that works of art are culturally emergent but physically embodied entities is Deweyan in spirit, as is his insistence on a robust relativist theory of interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference
The derivation of a fundamental moral term like “Good” from the empirical and experiential elements of human desires determined the naturalist character of Deweyan ethics. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Hook's pragmatism led him away from the ongoing debate in ethical theory toward the application of Deweyan naturalism and empiricism on contemporary issues in education, politics and society. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
A proper Deweyan critic would either seek to help the audience for art have a more satisfying experience of it (in the ways Dewey will discuss later in the book) or otherwise just get out of the way. From Wordnik.com. [John Dewey's *Art as Experience*] Reference
In the tradition of Deweyan pragmatism, Hook sought to apply the pragmatic interpretation of ethics to diverse areas of social action including issues of educational policy, cultural freedom and societal change. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Yet this distinction did not represent a fundamental obstacle to Hook's pragmatically Deweyan commitment that critical intelligence could arrive at objective truth about optimal policies for resolving social issues. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
A Deweyan representation of the reading experience (the experience of art in general) would balance the inwardness Birkerts evokes with an outwardness that also seeks satisfaction in the perception of form and style. From Wordnik.com. [The Reading Experience] Reference
During that period he was recognized as a strong supporter of the Deweyan ascendancy within the American philosophical horizon as well as a forceful defender of pragmatic theses in theory of knowledge and ethical theory. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
The logical positivist focus on the language of science, like the more generalized Deweyan focus on scientific method, was replaced by the focus on understanding the rules governing the use of conceptual terms in ordinary language. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Teachers who created programs at the school agreed with the Deweyan philosophy and through programming, tried to demonstrate that when the classroom teacher actively facilitated learning, students were more attentive and involved …. From Wordnik.com. [Literacy News – 105th Edition « News « Literacy News] Reference
By stressing this parallel between Marx and Deweyan instrumentalism, Marxism was not interpreted by Hook as a dogmatic thesis about historical inevitability but as an experimental hypothesis to be confirmed by its future consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Hook was a leading interpreter and proponent of Deweyan pragmatic naturalism from his years as Dewey's graduate student at Columbia in the 1920s through the six decades of his philosophical teaching and writing until his death in 1989. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
As the background for the development of Hook's thought, the philosophical and intellectual discussion of this period was dominated by the reigning power of Deweyan pragmatism even as it also showed the emerging signs of the coming influence of Marxism. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Hook had argued that Deweyan pragmatism did not represent an excessively optimistic faith in human perfectibility, on the model of Condorcé, and distanced itself from a logically dialectical faith in the inevitable historical progress along the lines of Hegel or Marx. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Santayana interpreted Deweyan metaphysics, with its upon the interaction between human beings and their natural environment and its potential for the possibility of human transformation of nature, as a complete reversal of the traditional scope of the “scala naturae.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
To a degree, Hook's focus on foundational moral issues shifted by the late 1930s from the investigation of the compatibility of Deweyan pragmatism with Marxism toward the defense of Deweyan ethical naturalism against the tide of opposition from moral absolutism and from moral emotivism. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
Massachusetts, a camp with a distinctly progressive Deweyan philosophy of education. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates]
We should settle for something more pragmatic, more ‘experimental†™ (in Deweyan terms). From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World “Shakespeare Now: The Function of Presentism at the Critical Time†in Literature Compass 5 / 6 (2008): 1097-1110. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
I'm a Deweyan pragmatist, so I tend to think we need to evaluate these things instrumentally in terms of their actual consequences, rather than in light of somewhat distant and abstract principles. From Wordnik.com. [CHE > Latest news] Reference
In this paper, I argue that undermining Talisse's pluralist objection permits the reunion of Deweyan democracy and pluralism-two ideas torn asunder by Talisse's misreading of the works of Dewey and Deweyans. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Theory Blog] Reference
Confucian democracy that combines the strengths of both Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism, this book explores how a premodern tradition could be put in dialogue with contemporary political and philosophical theories. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome] Reference
(See Wallace Stevens's "Sunday Morning" for a concrete, poetic embodiment of this Deweyan idea. From Wordnik.com. [John Dewey's *Art as Experience*] Reference
Much of Stevens's work could be taken as an extended reflection on the Deweyan notion of "order" more broadly.). From Wordnik.com. [John Dewey's *Art as Experience*] Reference
“Deweyan” student to end up without enough relevant knowledge and skills to be able to make a living in the modern world?). From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Education] Reference
1980s Dewey's aesthetics finally received an excellent exposition in the work of Thomas Alexander (1987), who has continued to develop a Deweyan aesthetics (Alexander 1999a). From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference
2001, “A Holistically Deweyan Feminism”. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference
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