Talk:John Dewey

John Dewey was known as an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was born on October 20, 1859 of Burlington, Vermont. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and later attended Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student. He wrote and researched on many social issues and gained the title of a leading social commentator of his time. Some of the issues that has drawn interest is his work in pragmatism, logic, and aesthetics. Dewey was one of the founders of "pragmatism" in which it was argued that an idea agrees ro corresponds with reality but it also brings the question of what the "agreement" or "correspondence" is. That theory was also challenged by a British logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell. The other article also states that one of the other founders, William James, thought that people who "over-believed" in religious concepts,were shallow and uninteresting and that no one single belief could be said to be the correct one. Whereas, Dewey rejected any belief and felt that only scientific method was reliable. Logic was another project that Dewey had his hand in. The use of language is what the first article states as being distinctive and it allows symbolic meaning and implicated relationships. His second article Dewey challenges logicians to answer some questions like:"Do logical operators function merely as abstractions ordo they connect in some essential way with their objects, and therefore alter or bring them to light?" Another subject of Dewey's was Aesthetics. He wrote the book Art as Experience that was based on William James Lectures. In this book he stresses the importance of recognizing the significance and integrity of all aspects of human experience. The other article also says that it was his study of the the individual art object as experienced from the local culture. He did say that the senses played a key role in the Aesthetic process. John Dewey dedicated his life to a wide range of issues some of which those as mentioned above and others such as democracy, ethics, metaphysics, critical reception and influence. He was truly a man of ideas and theories. I think that it would not take only a couple of days or even weeks to learn of all the work of Dewey, it would almost take a lifetime to really grasp and comprehend all his high-level theories.