Cambridge Companion to Dewey

Informationen zum Autor Molly Cochran is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach (1999). Klappentext Examines the wide range of Dewey's thought and provides a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence. Zusammenfassung John Dewey (1859–1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. The contributors to this Companion examine the wide range of Dewey's thought and provide a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Method of citation; Introduction Molly Cochran; 1. The making of a democratic philosopher: the intellectual development of John Dewey Robert Westbrook; 2. Dewey's epistemology Ruth Anna Putnam; 3. The naturalism of John Dewey Richard Gale; 4. Dewey's logic of inquiry Isaac Levi; 5. The primacy of practice in Dewey's experimental empiricism J. E. Tiles; 6. Cognitive science and Dewey's theory of mind, thought, and language Mark Johnson; 7. John Dewey on action Matthias Jung; 8. Dewey's moral philosophy Jennifer Welchman; 9. Ethics as moral inquiry: Dewey and the moral psychology of social reform James Bohman; 10. Dewey and pragmatic religious naturalism Sami Pihlström; 11. Dewey's aesthetics Richard Eldridge; 12. Dewey's philosophy of education: a critique from the perspective of care theory Nel Noddings; 13. Dewey's vision of radical democracy Richard J. Bernstein; 14. Dewey as an international thinker Molly Cochran.

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• Authors: Molly Cochran, Molly (Georgia Institute of Technology) Cochran, Cochran Molly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521874564
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87456-4
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge Companions to Philos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy