Dewey's Metaphysics

Form and Being in the Philosophy of John Dewey

Autor: Boisvert, Raymond
Editor: National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
ISBN: 9780823211968
eISBN Pdf: 9780823285136
eISBN Epub: 9780823283149
Lloc de publicació: Spain
Any de publicació: 2019
Any de publicació digital: 2018
Mes: Setembre
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

This work challenges recent neo-pragmatist interpretations of Dewey as a historicist, radically anti-essential thinker. By tracing Dewey's views on the issues of change and permanence, Boisvert demonstrates the way Dewey was able to learn from important scientific discoveries.

Cover
DEWEY'S METAPHYSICS
Title
Copyright
Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
- 1. Preliminary Remarks
- 2. The Need for Such a Study
- 3. General Outline
I • IDEALISM
- 1. Change and Permanence in Dewey's Idealistic Period
  - 1. Introduction
  - 2. Dewey's Idealistic Years
    - 2.1. Dewey's Kantian Phase
      - 2.11. Knowledge as Mediated and Synthetic
      - 2.12. The Transition to Hegelianism
    - 2.2. Dewey’s Hegelian Phase
      - 2.21. The Influence of Trendelenburg
      - 2.22. The Influence of George Sylvester Morris
      - 2.23. Dewey's Writings During His Hegelian Phase
      - 2.24. Dewey on Leibniz
        2.241. Relations
        2.242. Intelligence
        2.243. The Dynamic Interpretation of Existence
        2.244. Potentiality, Actuality, and End
  - 3. Summary
II • EXPERIMENTALISM
- 2. Darwin, Change, and the Transition to Experimentalism
  - 1. A Renewed Emphasis on Change
  - 2. Darwin's Impact on the Conception of Form
    - 2.1. Implications of the New View for Traditional Philosophical Problems
    - 2.2. Specific Implications of the New View for the Question of Change and Permanence
  - 3. Dewey: Still a Kantian?
  - 4. Summary
- 3. Change and Permanence in the Experimental Logic
  - 1. Introduction
  - 2. Restatement of the Problem
  - 3. Dewey's Criticisms of Alternative Views
    - 3.1. "Objects" in Dewey's Instrumentalism
    - 3.2. Dewey and Realism
    - 3.3. Dewey and Idealism
  - 4. Dewey's Constructive Doctrine
    - 4.1. Thought and Things
    - 4.2. Eidos
  - 5. Summary
III • NATURALISM
- 4. Dewey's Objections to Traditional Doctrines
  - 1. Introduction
  - 2. Techne and Physis
  - 3. Change, Permanence, and the Need for Philosophy
    - 3.1. Permanence and Social Need
    - 3.2. Art and Forms
    - 3.3. Biology and Language
    - 3.4. Selective Emphasis
  - 4. Dewey and Kant Re-examined
    - 4.1. Takens or Givens?
    - 4.2. Reason and Intelligence
  - 5. Summary
- 5. Metaphysics and Evolutionary Biology
  - 1. Continuity with the Classical Tradition
  - 2. Evolution and Ontology
    - 2.1. Interaction and the Separation of Matter and Form
    - 2.2. Three Characterizations of Forms
    - 2.3. The Dynamic Interpretation of Beings
  - 3. Categorial Analysis
    - 3.1. Events
    - 3.2. Relations
    - 3.3. Categories Apply to Both Techne and Physis
  - 4. Objective Relativism and Forms
    - 4.1. Forms as Objectively Relative in Techne and Physis
  - 5. Summary
- 6. Dewey's Reconstruction of Traditional Metaphysics
  - 1. Introduction
  - 2. Forms and Ends
  - 3. From Techne to Physis in Dewey
  - 4. Dewey's Reformulation of Classical Insights
    - 4.1. Forms as "Eternal"
    - 4.2. Intelligence and Forms
    - 4.3. Forms as Possibilities
    - 4.4. A Pluralistic Theory of Forms
  - 5. Summary
- 7. Logical Forms
  - 1. Introduction
  - 2. Logic as Methodology
  - 3. Logic and Ontology
  - 4. Logical Forms
  - 5. Summary
- Conclusion: Some Implications of the Study
  - 1. Dewey and the Foundationalist/Anti-Foundationalist Controversy
  - 2. On Interpreting Dewey
Bibliography
Indices