Essays in Experimental Logic


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In this early collection of formative essays, acclaimed American philosopher John Dewey argues that the idealistic, realistic, and analytic schools of philosophy fail to take into account the pragmatic and experimental nature of experience - common to science and practical experience, but alien to the abstract theorizing of coherentist and correspondence theories of logic.

Here we find the essential groundwork for the mature naturalistic and process-oriented metaphysics that Dewey would elaborate in his later mature works such as Experience and Nature and Logic: The Theory of Inquiry.

In his long introduction, Dewey provides a summary and precis of his experimental logic, taking specifically pains to contrast his approach with the emerging analytic logic of Russell and Frege.

Chapters 3-6 take aim at the idealistic logic dominant in his time by providing a close reading and critique of the German logician Hermann Lotze.

Chapters 7-8 argue for the distinction between acquaintance with an external reality and knowledge of that reality.

Rather than disembodied and abstract, Dewey describes a logic arising out of the concrete interactions of organisms embedded within a natural environment. Dewey's logic of experience is essential to an understanding of his various projects, from education, to art, politics, pragmatism, and science.

(Summary by P. J. Taylor) (11 hr 26 min)

Chapitres

Prefatory Note 1:49 Lu par P. J. Taylor
I. Introduction (§ I - IV) 50:18 Lu par P. J. Taylor
I. Introduction (§ V-VII) 58:50 Lu par P. J. Taylor
II. The Relationship of Thought and Its Subject Matter 36:39 Lu par P. J. Taylor
III. The Antecedents and Stimuli of Thinking 47:26 Lu par P. J. Taylor
IV. Data and Meaning 26:17 Lu par P. J. Taylor
V. The Objects of Thought 35:05 Lu par P. J. Taylor
VI. Some Stages of Logical Thought 54:10 Lu par P. J. Taylor
VII. The Logical Character of Ideas 12:04 Lu par P. J. Taylor
VIII. The Control of Ideas by Facts 33:44 Lu par franklinvios
IX. Naive Realism Vs. Presentative Realism 22:35 Lu par franklinvios
X. Epistemological Realism: The Alleged Ubiquity of the Knowledge Relation 29:20 Lu par realisticspeakers
XI. The Existence of the World as a Logical Problem 30:10 Lu par franklinvios
XII. What Pragmatism Means by Practical 43:34 Lu par Matthew Muñoz
XIII. An Added Note as to the 'Practical' 9:04 Lu par Kathleen Moore
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Their Nature 27:20 Lu par Kathleen Moore
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Judgments of Value I and II 43:22 Lu par Jennifer Henry
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Judgments of Value III, IV, V 36:45 Lu par Jennifer Henry
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Sense Perception as Knowledge 35:23 Lu par ToddHW
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Science as a Practical Art 41:09 Lu par realisticspeakers
XIV. The Logic of Judgements of Practice - Theory and Practice 11:25 Lu par franklinvios