Dewey's Metaphysics : Form and Being in the Philosophy of John Dewey / / Raymond D. Boisvert

• Autore: Boisvert Raymond D
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 1988; ©1988
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 110/.92
• Soggetto topico: Metaphysics - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 215-223.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- DEWEY'S METAPHYSICS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Preliminary Remarks -- 2. The Need for Such a Study -- 3. General Outline -- I IDEALISM -- 1. Change and Permanence in Dewey's Idealistic Period -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dewey's Idealistic Years -- 2.1. Dewey's Kantian Phase -- 2.11. Knowledge as Mediated and Synthetic -- 2.12. The Transition to Hegelianism -- 2.2. Dewey's Hegelian Phase -- 2.21. The Influence of Trendelenburg -- 2.22. The Influence of George Sylvester Morris -- 2.23. Dewey's Writings During His Hegelian Phase -- 2.24. Dewey on Leibniz -- 2.241. Relations -- 2.242. Intelligence -- 2.243. The Dynamic Interpretation of Existence -- 2.244. Potentiality, Actuality, and End -- 3. Summary -- II EXPERIMENTALISM -- 2. Darwin, Change, and the Transition to Experimentalism -- 1. A Renewed Emphasis on Change -- 2. Darwin's Impact on the Conception of Form -- 2.1. Implications of the New View for Traditional Philosophical Problems -- 2.2. Specific Implications of the New View for the Question of Change and Permanence -- 3. Dewey: Still a Kantian? -- 4. Summary -- 3. Change and Permanence in the Experimental Logic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Restatement of the Problem -- 3. Dewey's Criticisms of Alternative Views -- 3.1. "Objects" in Dewey's Instrumentalism -- 3.2. Dewey and Realism -- 3.3. Dewey and Idealism -- 4. Dewey's Constructive Doctrine -- 4.1. Thought and Things -- 4.2. Eidos -- 5. Summary -- III NATURALISM -- 4. Dewey's Objections to Traditional Doctrines -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Techne and Physis -- 3. Change, Permanence, and the Need for Philosophy -- 3.1. Permanence and Social Need -- 3.2. Art and Forms -- 3.3. Biology and Language -- 3.4. Selective Emphasis -- 4. Dewey and Kant Re-examined -- 4.1. Takens or Givens?. ; 4.2. Reason and Intelligence -- 5. Summary -- 5. Metaphysics and Evolutionary Biology -- 1. Continuity with the Classical Tradition -- 2. Evolution and Ontology -- 2.1. Interaction and the Separation of Matter and Form -- 2.2. Three Characterizations of Forms -- 2.3. The Dynamic Interpretation of Beings -- 3. Categorial Analysis -- 3.1. Events -- 3.2. Relations -- 3.3. Categories Apply to Both Techne and Physis -- 4. Objective Relativism and Forms -- 4.1. Forms as Objectively Relative in Techne and Physis -- 5. Summary -- 6. Dewey's Reconstruction of Traditional Metaphysics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms and Ends -- 3. From Techne to Physis in Dewey -- 4. Dewey's Reformulation of Classical Insights -- 4.1. Forms as "Eternal -- 4.2. Intelligence and Forms -- 4.3. Forms as Possibilities -- 4.4. A Pluralistic Theory of Forms -- 5. Summary -- 7. Logical Forms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Logic as Methodology -- 3. Logic and Ontology -- 4. Logical Forms -- 5. Summary -- Conclusion: Some Implications of the Study -- 1. Dewey and the Foundationalist/Anti-Foundationalist Controversy -- 2. On Interpreting Dewey -- Bibliography -- Indices.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work presents an interpetation of John Dewey's metahysics. Dewey spent 70 years of his life in philosophical activity. The text covers the three periods of Dewey's career. The first is the idealistic phase, then the experimental phase, and finally the naturalistic phase.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dewey's Metaphysics
• ISBN: 0-8232-8476-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910642289703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fordham scholarship online.