Creative intelligence : essays in the pragmatic attitude / John Dewey [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewey, John, 1859-1952, author.

Series:

World philosophy series.

World philosophy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellect--Philosophy.

Intellect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Snova, [2020]

Summary:

Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude represents an attempt at intellectual cooperation. No effort has been made, however, to attain unanimity of belief nor to proffer a platform of "planks" on which there is agreement. The consensus represented lies primarily in outlook, in conviction of what is most likely to be fruitful in method of approach. As the title page suggests, the volume presents a unity in attitude rather than a uniformity in results. Consequently each writer is definitively responsible only for his own essay. The reader will note that the Essays endeavor to embody the common attitude in application to specific fields of inquiry which have been historically associated with philosophy rather than as a thing by itself. Beginning with philosophy itself, subsequent contributions discuss its application to logic, to mathematics, to physical science, to psychology, to ethics, to economics, and then again to philosophy itself in conjunction with esthetics and religion. The reader will probably find that the significant points of agreement have to do with the ideas of the genuineness of the future, of intelligence as the organ for determining the quality of that future so far as it can come within human control, and of a courageously inventive individual as the bearer of a creatively employed mind.

Contents:

The need for recovery of philosophy / John Dewey

Reformation of logic / Addison W. Moore

Intelligence and mathematics / Harold Chapman Brown

Scientific method and individual thinker / George H. Mead

Consciousness and psychology / Boyd H. Bode

The phases of the economic interest / Henry Waldgrave Stuart

The moral life and the construction of values and standards / James Hayden Tufts

Value and existences in philosophy, art, and religion / Horance M. Kallen.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-8642-2