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Experience and value : essays on John Dewey and pragmatic naturalism / S. Morris Eames ; edited by Elizabeth R. Eames and Richard W. Field. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eames, S. Morris (Samuel Morris), 1916-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Dewey, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 166 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Experience and Value: Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism brings together twelve philosophical essays spanning the career of noted Dewey scholar, S. Morris Eames. The volume includes both critiques and interpretations of important issues in John Dewey's value theory as well as the application of Eames's pragmatic naturalism in addressing contemporary problems in social theory, education, and religion."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The leading principles of pragmatic naturalism
- Experience and philosophical method in John Dewey
- Primary experience in the philosophy of John Dewey
- The cognitive and the noncognitive in Dewey's theory of valuation
- Immediate and mediated values
- Valuing, obligation, and evaluation
- Dewey's views of the truth, beauty, and goodness
- General education and the two cultures
- Scientific grounds for valuational norms
- Creativity and democracy
- The lost individual and religious unity
- Religion as the quality of excellence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4294-1750-1
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