
The Quest for Certainty
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Narrated by:
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Fred Filbrich
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By:
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John Dewey
This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures delivered April and May, 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as "a criticism of philosophy as attempting to attain theoretical certainty."
In the Philosophical Review, Max C. Otto later elaborated: "Mr. Dewey wanted, so far as lay in his power, to crumble into dust, once and for all, the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition."
The book is published by Southern Illinois University Press.
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Dewey is the man!!!!
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Dewey's followers may take this tack farther than Dewey intended it to go. What can be experienced is known only by experience, yet the act of thinking about an experience is itself an experience, so that experience is never made more remote, nor is it compassed about, even though Dewey seems to think so. In order to suppose that certainty can be acquired only by and through experience, we have to consider all aspects of experience, not just the particular experience(s) in question.
Dewey takes no account of the intrinsically diadic relationship between an observing subject, and observed (that which is,) as to recognize that experience is diadic and not monadic would throw into question the integrity of his entire system. Should Dewey concede that logically, experience must be at least at base, a diad of entities locked in experience with each other, he would come dangerously close to admitting something outside experience as more basic and fundamental than experience itself.
Nevertheless, it's important to read Dewey (and any other philosopher, for that matter) with a critical eye and a trained nose. Good luck.
What is Dewey saying, really?
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