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|a Dewey, John,
|d 1859-1952
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|a Reconstruction in philosophy.
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|a Enl. ed., with a new introduction by the author.
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|a Boston,
|b Beacon Press,
|c c1948.
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|a xlvii, 222 p.
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|a Includes index.
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|a On cover: The definitive edition.
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|g I.
|t Changing Conceptions of Philosophy --
|t Origin of philosophy in desire and imagination --
|t Influence of community traditions and authority --
|t Simultaneous development of matter-of-fact knowledge --
|t Incongruity and conflict of the two types --
|t Respective values of each type --
|t Classic philosophies (i) compensatory, (ii) dialectically formal, and (iii) concerned with "superior" Reality --
|t Contemporary thinking accepts primacy of matter-of-fact knowledge and assigns to philosophy a social function rather than that of absolute knowledge --
|g II.
|t Some Historical Factors in Philosophical Reconstruction --
|t Francis Bacon exemplifies the newer spirit --
|t He conceived knowledge as power --
|t As dependent upon organized cooperative research --
|t As tested by promotion of social progress --
|t The new thought reflected actual social changes, industrial, political, religious --
|t The new idealism --
|g III.
|t The Scientific Factor in Reconstruction of Philosophy --
|t Science has revolutionized our conception of Nature --
|t Philosophy has to be transformed because it no longer depends upon a science which accepts a closed, finite world --
|t Or, fixed species --
|t Or, superiority or rest to change and motion --
|t Contrast of feudal with democratic conceptions --
|t Elimination of final causes --
|t Mechanical science and the possibility of control of nature --
|t Respect for matter --
|t New temper of imagination --
|t Influence thus far technical rather than human and moral --
|g IV.
|t Changed Conceptions of Experience and Reason --
|t Traditional conception of nature of experience --
|t Limits of ancient civilization --
|t Effect of classic idea on modern empiricism --
|t Why a different conception is now possible --
|t Psychological change emphasizes vital factor using environment --
|t Effect upon traditional ideas of sensation and knowledge --
|t Factor of organization --
|t Socially, experience is now more inventive and regulative --
|t Corresponding change in idea of Reason --
|t Intelligence is hypothetical and inventive --
|t Weakness of historic Rationalism --
|t Kantianism --
|t Contrast of German and British philosophies --
|t Reconstruction of empirical liberalism --
|g V.
|t Changed Conceptions of the Ideal and the Real --
|t Idealization rooted in aversion to the disagreeable --
|t This fact has affected philosophy --
|t True reality is ideal, and hence changeless, complete --
|t Hence contemplative knowledge is higher than experimental --
|t Contrast with the modern practise of knowledge --
|t Significance of change --
|t The actual or realistic signifies conditions effecting change --
|t Ideals become methods rather than goals --
|t Illustration from elimination of distance --
|t Change in conception of philosophy --
|t The significant problems for philosophy --
|t Social understanding and conciliation --
|t The practical problem of real and ideal --
|g VI.
|t The Significance of Logical Reconstruction --
|t Present confusion as to logic --
|t Logic is regulative and normative because empirical --
|t Illustration from mathematics --
|t Origin of thinking in conflicts --
|t Confrontation with fact --
|t Response by anticipation or prediction --
|t Importance of hypotheses --
|t Impartial inquiry --
|t Importance of deductive function --
|t Organization and classification --
|t Nature of truth --
|t Truth is adverbial, not a thing --
|g VII.
|t Reconstruction in Moral Conceptions --
|t Common factor in traditional theories --
|t Every moral situation unique --
|t Supremacy of the specific or individualized case --
|t Fallacy of general ends --
|t Worth of generalization of ends and rules is intellectual --
|t Harmfulness of division of goods into intrinsic and instrumental --
|t Into natural and moral --
|t Moral worth of natural science --
|t Importance of discovery in morals --
|t Abolishing Phariseeism --
|t Growth as the end --
|t Optimism and pessimism --
|t Conception of happiness --
|t Criticism of utilitarianism --
|t All life moral in so far as educative --
|g VIII.
|t Reconstruction as Affecting Social Philosophy --
|t Defects of current logic of social thought --
|t Neglect of specific situations --
|t Defects of organic concept of society --
|t Evils of notion of fixed self or individual --
|t Doctrine of interests --
|t Moral and institutional reform --
|t Moral test of social institutions --
|t Social pluralism --
|t Political monism, dogma of National State --
|t Primacy of associations --
|t International humanism --
|t Organization a subordinate conception --
|t Freedom and democracy --
|t Intellectual reconstruction when habitual will affect imagination and hence poetry and religion --
|t Index.
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