The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher
and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of
commentaries, critical editions, and reevaluations of Dewey's
writings. While previous studies of Dewey's work have taken either
a historical or a topical focus, Shook offers an innovative,
organic approach to understanding Dewey and eloquently shows that
Dewey's instrumentalism grew seamlessly out of his idealism. He
argues that most current scholarship operates under a mistaken
impression of Dewey's early philosophical positions and
convincingly demonstrates a number of key points:
that Dewey's metaphysical empiricism remained more indebted to
Kant and Hegel than is commonly supposed;
that Dewey owed more to the influence of Wundt than is commonly
believed;
that the influence of Peirce and James was not as significant for
the development of Dewey's theories of mind and truth as has been
argued in the past;
and that Dewey's pragmatic theory of knowledge never really
abandoned idealism.
Shook's exposition of the unity of Dewey's thought challenges a
large scholarly industry devoted to suppressing or explaining away
the consistency between Dewey's early thought and his later work.
In every respect, "Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and
Reality" is a provocative and engaging study that will occupy a
unique niche in this field. It is certain to stimulate discussion
and controversy, forcing Dewey traditionalists out of habitual
modes of thought and transforming our conventional understanding of
the development of classical American philosophy.
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