By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an adequate account of experience suitable to explain how our immediate experiencing becomes the material for logical sequences, series, and causal relations. Nor did he have a refined account of judging, propositions, and conceptions. Above all, his theory of continuity—central to all of his logical endeavors—was rudimentary. The years 1916–1937 saw Dewey remedy these deficiencies. We see in his published and unpublished articles, books, lecture notes and correspondence, the pursuit of a line of thinking that would lead to his magnum opus.
John Dewey’s Later Logical Theory follows Dewey through his path from
Essays in Experimental Logic to the publication of
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, and complements James Scott Johnston’s earlier volume,
John Dewey’s Earlier Logical Theory.
قائمة المحتويات
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Dewey’s Logical Education, 1915–1937: From Lectures on the Types of Logical Theory to
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
2. Dewey’s Logical Development 1916–1924
3. Dewey’s Logical Development 1925–1932
4. Dewey’s Logical Development 1933–1937
Appendix 1
Notes
References
Index
عن المؤلف
James Scott Johnston is Jointly Appointed Associate Professor of Education and Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is the author of several books, including
John Dewey’s Earlier Logical Theory and
Deweyan Inquiry: From Education Theory to Practice, both also published by SUNY Press.