CONTENTS 1. Pragmatism 1. The Development of American Pragmatism (1925) ............................ 3 2. From Absolutism to Experimentalism (1903) ................................ 22 3. What I Believe? (1930) ................................................... 35 2. Reconstruction of Philosophy 4. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy (1909) .......................... 49 5. The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy (1917) ............................. 61 6. Changed Conceptions of Experience and Reason (1920) ...................... 105 3. Evolutionary Naturalism 7. The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism (1905) ............................. 121 8. Pure Experience and Reality, A Disclaimer (1907) ......................... 131 9. Experience and Philosophic Method (1926) ................................. 136 10. Nature in Experience (1940) ............................................. 167 4. Pragmatic Metaphysics 11. The Subject Matter of Metaphysical Inquiry (1915) ....................... 183 12. Events and the Future (1926) ............................................ 194 13. Context and Thought (1931) .............................................. 201 14. Time and Individuality (1940) ........................................... 220 5. Inquiry, Judgment, Truth 15. The Pattern of Inquiry (1938) ........................................... 239 16. The Place of Judgment in Reflective Activity (1910) ..................... 257 17. The Problem of Truth (1911) ............................................. 268 18. ProPositions, Warranted Assertibility and Truth (1941) .................. 322 6. Morality, Value, Human Nature 19 Three independent Factors in Morals (1930) .............................. 347 20 Some Questions about Value (1944) ....................................... 357 21 Does Human Nature Change? (1938) ........................................ 365 7. Science, Education, Politics 22 Science and Society (1931) .............................................. 375 23 The Relation of Science and Philosophy as the Basis of Education (1938) ..................................................... 385 24. My Pedagogic Creed (1897) ............................................... 390 25. The Future of Liberalism (1935) ......................................... 401 26. Creative Democracy——The Task Before Us(1939) ........................ 413 Appendix: 1 Major B00ks by John Dewey ............................................. 421 2 Biographical Data ..................................................... 423 |