Deductive Reasoning
... If the room is dark then either the light switch is turned off or the bulb has burned out; ...
... If the room is dark then either the light switch is turned off or the bulb has burned out; ...
Reading Dewey`s Political Philosophy Through
... primarily with their political philosophies, with politics understood as a necessary, though limited component of democracy as a way of life.2 Addams gives elements of her political philosophy in a number of essays she wrote defending her participation in the 1912 Progressive Party convention, and D ...
... primarily with their political philosophies, with politics understood as a necessary, though limited component of democracy as a way of life.2 Addams gives elements of her political philosophy in a number of essays she wrote defending her participation in the 1912 Progressive Party convention, and D ...
Aalborg Universitet Why all anthropology should be called techno-anthropology Birkbak, Andreas
... and John Dewey have offered persuasive accounts of technology that reject a divide between something genuinely ’human’ as opposed to the ’other’ of technology. They both do so on pragmatist gro ...
... and John Dewey have offered persuasive accounts of technology that reject a divide between something genuinely ’human’ as opposed to the ’other’ of technology. They both do so on pragmatist gro ...
James, Dewey, and Democracy
... experience itself is not immediately sentenced. To Schiller, James writes, “Dewey’s powerful stuff seems also to ring the death knell of a sentenced world. Yet none of them will see it – Taylor will still write his refutations etc, etc, when the living world will be all drifting after us.”15 Here we ...
... experience itself is not immediately sentenced. To Schiller, James writes, “Dewey’s powerful stuff seems also to ring the death knell of a sentenced world. Yet none of them will see it – Taylor will still write his refutations etc, etc, when the living world will be all drifting after us.”15 Here we ...
How Popper`s `Three Worlds Theory` Resembles Moscovici`s
... or testability.” (1962, p. 37). Still, one could ask why Popper differentiates between falsification and verification at all. A scientific theory makes certain predictions about observable events and they happen to be true or not (or something in between) and the theory is either falsified or verifi ...
... or testability.” (1962, p. 37). Still, one could ask why Popper differentiates between falsification and verification at all. A scientific theory makes certain predictions about observable events and they happen to be true or not (or something in between) and the theory is either falsified or verifi ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... reputation, then, turns not on his choice of metre or medium, but on the substance of his teaching on topics such as cosmology and epistemology. As I have mentioned, the only reason to credit the interpretation of Empedocles and Aristotle is fragment B28, and fortunately what is at stake is one sin ...
... reputation, then, turns not on his choice of metre or medium, but on the substance of his teaching on topics such as cosmology and epistemology. As I have mentioned, the only reason to credit the interpretation of Empedocles and Aristotle is fragment B28, and fortunately what is at stake is one sin ...
American Social Science: The Irrelevance of Pragmatism
... Third, after considering the views of Peirce and James against the background of then current understandings of science, I develop Dewey’s largely unacknowledged and frequently misunderstood criticism of the genesis of positivist academic psychology and social science.3 What is Science? In what beca ...
... Third, after considering the views of Peirce and James against the background of then current understandings of science, I develop Dewey’s largely unacknowledged and frequently misunderstood criticism of the genesis of positivist academic psychology and social science.3 What is Science? In what beca ...
A Call for Inclusion in the Pragmatic Justification of Democracy
... developed metaphysics of experience and to assume a vision of human flourishing within a community bounded by unquestioned ideals. His thick account of nature, humanity and community are too substantive for a pluralist democracy and undercut his supposed commitment to free inquiry. So let us not be ...
... developed metaphysics of experience and to assume a vision of human flourishing within a community bounded by unquestioned ideals. His thick account of nature, humanity and community are too substantive for a pluralist democracy and undercut his supposed commitment to free inquiry. So let us not be ...
John Ryder ABSTRACT: Philosophers have
... experience. Benjamin spoke of language, Dewey of inference, and Buchler of judgment. This paper discusses what each meant, why each addressed the question as he did, and in the end which is preferable. The argument is made that Benjamin and Dewey exaggerated the role of language and inference respec ...
... experience. Benjamin spoke of language, Dewey of inference, and Buchler of judgment. This paper discusses what each meant, why each addressed the question as he did, and in the end which is preferable. The argument is made that Benjamin and Dewey exaggerated the role of language and inference respec ...
Knowledge and the curriculum - Brunel University Research Archive
... might ask, should there be for the child to creatively interpret and appropriate the curriculum? Isn't the very point of education that children not just 'get' the curriculum but that they get it 'right'? And doesn't that imply that while there is an obvious need for the coordination of the individu ...
... might ask, should there be for the child to creatively interpret and appropriate the curriculum? Isn't the very point of education that children not just 'get' the curriculum but that they get it 'right'? And doesn't that imply that while there is an obvious need for the coordination of the individu ...
The Poverty of Historicism
... As for other suggestions about the differences between the natural and the social sciences, Popper's general position seems to be that there is a tendency to exaggerate difficulties into impossibilities. Certainly there are all sorts of differences involved in solving problems concerning our fellow ...
... As for other suggestions about the differences between the natural and the social sciences, Popper's general position seems to be that there is a tendency to exaggerate difficulties into impossibilities. Certainly there are all sorts of differences involved in solving problems concerning our fellow ...
John Dewey on the Public Responsibility of Intellectuals
... it, on the one hand, might gain significant notoriety but are merely ineffectual popularizes of ideas that are “vacuous and hollow,” whereas many who work within the academy and write principally for other academics, on the other, powerfully influence the broader world.2 By both West’s and Dewey’s a ...
... it, on the one hand, might gain significant notoriety but are merely ineffectual popularizes of ideas that are “vacuous and hollow,” whereas many who work within the academy and write principally for other academics, on the other, powerfully influence the broader world.2 By both West’s and Dewey’s a ...
The Metaphysics of John Dewey, Part II
... City of all places, that gave him a deep sense of safety and peace. But experiential mysticism was not enough to assuage Dewey’s feelings of isolation and estrangement, since he was, above all, an inveterate intellectual. What he craved was a philosophy that intellectually would bear out what he de ...
... City of all places, that gave him a deep sense of safety and peace. But experiential mysticism was not enough to assuage Dewey’s feelings of isolation and estrangement, since he was, above all, an inveterate intellectual. What he craved was a philosophy that intellectually would bear out what he de ...
Dewey`s Concepts of Stability and Precariousness - Purdue e-Pubs
... it searches out consciously new kinds of things by varying the conditions within which objects interact and hence opens up the possibility of finding novel kinds (new stable means) by means of such variation.17 The modern scientific method, unlike Aristotelian scientific method, does not consider an ob ...
... it searches out consciously new kinds of things by varying the conditions within which objects interact and hence opens up the possibility of finding novel kinds (new stable means) by means of such variation.17 The modern scientific method, unlike Aristotelian scientific method, does not consider an ob ...
EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTUAL BELIEF
... Popper discussed the relations between perceptual experience and perceptual belief in his Logic of Scientific Discovery, first published in 1934. He called it the ‘problem of the empirical basis’. I think his discussion is a philosophical tour de force. Most philosophers think it completely wrong-he ...
... Popper discussed the relations between perceptual experience and perceptual belief in his Logic of Scientific Discovery, first published in 1934. He called it the ‘problem of the empirical basis’. I think his discussion is a philosophical tour de force. Most philosophers think it completely wrong-he ...
the liberalism of karl popper
... conclusions from the collapse of induction: rather, appealing to a principle of transference from validity in logic to efficacy in psychology, he rehabilitates rationality in thought and action with the conjecture that learning occurs in human beings and all other problem-solving organisms, not thro ...
... conclusions from the collapse of induction: rather, appealing to a principle of transference from validity in logic to efficacy in psychology, he rehabilitates rationality in thought and action with the conjecture that learning occurs in human beings and all other problem-solving organisms, not thro ...
lesson on logic and arguments
... Quotes linked with proofs... a proof is that which results from a valid argument constructed from a set of true premises. an argument which starts from one or more premises which are propositions taken for granted for the purpose of the argument, and argues to a ...
... Quotes linked with proofs... a proof is that which results from a valid argument constructed from a set of true premises. an argument which starts from one or more premises which are propositions taken for granted for the purpose of the argument, and argues to a ...
Pragmatist Historiography in Unmodern Philosophy and Modern
... It is tempting to dismiss the first half of Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy. At first blush, it would not seem to be essential to Dewey’s foremost concern to provide a naturalized account of knowing that avoids the hoary philosophical dualisms of body/ mind, thing/person, material/ideal, a ...
... It is tempting to dismiss the first half of Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy. At first blush, it would not seem to be essential to Dewey’s foremost concern to provide a naturalized account of knowing that avoids the hoary philosophical dualisms of body/ mind, thing/person, material/ideal, a ...
Two Responses to the Failings of Modern Economics: the
... Strassmann has captured the situation well in the course of promoting a feminist alternative approach to economics: “To a mainstream economist, theory means model, and model means ideas expressed in mathematical form. In learning how to “think like an economist,” students learn certain critical conc ...
... Strassmann has captured the situation well in the course of promoting a feminist alternative approach to economics: “To a mainstream economist, theory means model, and model means ideas expressed in mathematical form. In learning how to “think like an economist,” students learn certain critical conc ...
Popper`s Double Standard of Scientificity in
... difference regarding the status of a theory or hypothesis. What makes the difference is the failing of any of the tests: refutation or falsification is the only means Popper allows for the control of scientific knowledge. This essential qualification is Popper’s criterion of the demarcation between ...
... difference regarding the status of a theory or hypothesis. What makes the difference is the failing of any of the tests: refutation or falsification is the only means Popper allows for the control of scientific knowledge. This essential qualification is Popper’s criterion of the demarcation between ...
Liberalism and the Moral Significance of
... it seems to merge with that "classical liberalism" which appears (not completely without justification) in the demonology of critics as the ideology of big business. This breach in the liberal tradition represents the intrusion of romantic collectivism (whether in the selfraggrandizement of the busi ...
... it seems to merge with that "classical liberalism" which appears (not completely without justification) in the demonology of critics as the ideology of big business. This breach in the liberal tradition represents the intrusion of romantic collectivism (whether in the selfraggrandizement of the busi ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... changed; reality has changed. I may be embarrassed by my fright, but reality has been changed via the process of inquiry. It is, of course, correct to say that the latter experience is cognitively ‘truer’ than the former, but it is no more or less real. In a note added to the end of the essay in res ...
... changed; reality has changed. I may be embarrassed by my fright, but reality has been changed via the process of inquiry. It is, of course, correct to say that the latter experience is cognitively ‘truer’ than the former, but it is no more or less real. In a note added to the end of the essay in res ...
Ethics without Ontology
... him on our farm. One day he had been drinking, and became enraged at one of our domestics and cut his throat, whereupon my father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch. Then he sent a man to Athens to find out from the seer what ought to be done-meanwhile paying no attention to the man ...
... him on our farm. One day he had been drinking, and became enraged at one of our domestics and cut his throat, whereupon my father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch. Then he sent a man to Athens to find out from the seer what ought to be done-meanwhile paying no attention to the man ...
105661_53 The Enlightenment Programme and Karl Popper
... Much of the importance of Karl Popper’s work, especially of his first four books, stems from the fact that it does much to correct defects of the traditional, bungled Enlightenment Programme that we have inherited from the 18th century – although Popper does not himself formulate his contribution in ...
... Much of the importance of Karl Popper’s work, especially of his first four books, stems from the fact that it does much to correct defects of the traditional, bungled Enlightenment Programme that we have inherited from the 18th century – although Popper does not himself formulate his contribution in ...