TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalton,Thomas
TI  - Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist
SN  - 9780253109347
AV  - B945.D44 -- D33 2002eb 
U1  - 191B 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Dewey, John, -- 1859-1952
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Originality in Social Context -- Part One: Sublime Reason and the Comforts of Doubt -- ONE: From Calvinism to Evolutionism -- TWO: Healing an "Inward Laceration" -- THREE: Experimentalist in the Making -- Part Two: Rendezvous with the New York Avant-Garde -- FOUR: Contrasting Strategies for Educational Innovation -- FIVE: Cultural Disillusionment -- SIX: The Evolution of Mind in Nature -- Part Three: The Transformational Potential of Consciousness in Art, Politics, and Science -- SEVEN: Post-impressionism, Quantum Mechanics, and the Triumph of Phenomenal Experience -- EIGHT: Communities of Intelligence and the Politics of Spirit -- NINE: The Function of Judgment in Inquiry -- TEN: Locomotion as a Metaphor for Mind -- Part Four: Naturalism Lost and Found -- ELEVEN: Cultural Pragmatism and the Disappearance of Dewey 's Naturalism -- Conclusion: The Revival of Dewey 's Naturalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - As one of America's "public intellectuals," John Dewey was                engaged in a lifelong struggle to understand the human mind and the nature of human                inquiry. According to Thomas C. Dalton, the successful pursuit of this mission                demanded that Dewey become more than just a philosopher; it compelled him to become                thoroughly familiar with the theories and methods of physics, psychology, and                neurosciences, as well as become engaged in educational and social reform. Tapping                archival sources and Dewey's extensive correspondence, Dalton reveals that Dewey had                close personal and intellectual ties to scientists and scholars who helped form the                mature expression of his thought. Dewey's relationships with F. M. Alexander, Henri                Matisse, Niels Bohr, Myrtle McGraw, and Lawrence K. Frank, among others, show how                Dewey dispersed pragmatism throughout American thought and culture
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