Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding

Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding

John Dewey

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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding by John Dewey

Chapter 1 No.1

The Man.

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His Parents 1

His Early Education 2

His University Training at Leipsic 4

At Jena 8

At the University of Altdorf 10

His Removal to Frankfurt 10

His Mission to Paris 11

Discovery of the Calculus 12

Librarian at Hanover 13

His Activities 14

His Philosophic Writings 15

His Ecclesiastic and Academic Projects 17

His Later Years and Death 18

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The scope of John Dewey's writings — ranging from aesthetics and education to legal and political theory — and his role in the development of twentieth-century philosophy have helped make him a continuing influence on contemporary thought. One of his most significant contributions to the theory of knowledge lay in his application of the principles of instrumentalism to traditional approaches to logical theory. Essays in Experimental Logic contains 14 of Dewey's most profound papers on many different aspects of knowledge, reality, and epistemology.These papers on experimental logic are based on the theory that possession of knowledge implies a judgment, resulting from an inquiry or investigation. The presence of this "inquiry stage" suggests an intermediate and mediating phase between the external world and knowledge, an area conditioned by other factors. Expanding upon this foundation, these papers consider the relationship of thought and its subject matter; the antecedents and stimuli of thought, data, and meanings; the objects of thought; control of ideas by facts; and similar topics.Three papers describe the various kinds of philosophical realism. The first closely examines Bertrand Russell's dictum concerning "our knowledge of the external world as a field for scientific method"; the other two discuss pragmatism, differentiating Dewey's position from those of James and Peirce. These essays present their author's most easily followed account of his own philosophy. The section entitled "Stage of Logical Thought" analyzes the role of scientific method in philosophy, and the final essay presents a striking theory of a logic of values.

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