Experience and Nature

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Experience and Nature is a major philosophical work by John Dewey that articulates his naturalistic and pragmatist account of human experience and reality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses relation between science and common sense
role of art and imagination in experience
status of metaphysical concepts in a naturalistic framework
aimsTo reconstruct philosophy as a theory of experience within nature
author John Dewey
centralClaim experience is an interaction between organism and environment
human experience is continuous with natural processes
philosophy should be grounded in empirical inquiry
traditional dualisms between mind and nature are misleading abstractions
values and meanings arise within natural experience
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes continuity between scientific inquiry and everyday experience
genre non-fiction
philosophy
hasEdition 1929 revised edition
hasPart chapter on experience, nature and art
chapter on nature, life and body-mind
chapter on the live creature and the world of experience
influenced Hilary Putnam
Richard Rorty
contemporary pragmatism
influencedBy Charles Sanders Peirce
Darwinian evolutionary theory
William James
empiricism
language English
mainTopic epistemology
metaphysics
naturalism
philosophy of experience
philosophy of nature
pragmatism
movement classical pragmatism
opposes spectator theory of knowledge
strict mind–body dualism
philosophicalPerspective anti-foundationalism
fallibilism
instrumentalism
philosophicalSchool pragmatism
surface form: American pragmatism

naturalistic pragmatism
publicationYear 1925
publisher Open Court Publishing Company
relatedWork Democracy and Education
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
Über Gewißheit
surface form: The Quest for Certainty

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