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.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| addresses |
relation between science and common sense
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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
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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
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surface form:
United States
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| describes | continuity between scientific inquiry and everyday experience ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasEdition | 1929 revised edition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapter on experience, nature and art
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chapter on nature, life and body-mind ⓘ chapter on the live creature and the world of experience ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hilary Putnam
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Richard Rorty ⓘ contemporary pragmatism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Darwinian evolutionary theory ⓘ William James ⓘ empiricism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
epistemology
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metaphysics ⓘ naturalism ⓘ philosophy of experience ⓘ philosophy of nature ⓘ pragmatism ⓘ |
| movement | classical pragmatism ⓘ |
| opposes |
spectator theory of knowledge
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strict mind–body dualism ⓘ |
| philosophicalPerspective |
anti-foundationalism
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fallibilism ⓘ instrumentalism ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
pragmatism
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surface form:
American pragmatism
naturalistic pragmatism ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| publisher | Open Court Publishing Company ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Democracy and Education
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Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ⓘ Über Gewißheit ⓘ
surface form:
The Quest for Certainty
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