Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.

As well as a psychologist and progressive educational reformer, John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of the more influential American philosophers of the last century. With Charles Sanders Peirce and ...

Pragmatism still is one of the most fruitful sources of modern sociological thought. For example: the recently claimed desire for a so called "relational" sociology just means carrying coals to ...

The revival of philosophical pragmatism has generated a wealth of intramural debates between neopragmatists like Richard Rorty and contemporary scholars devoted to explicating the classical pragmatism ...

I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy. I work mostly on John Dewey, the tradition of American pragmatism, democratic education, and other related ...

John Capps received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1997. The focus of his research is within epistemology and the philosophy of science, where he has been influenced by the work of classical ...

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The author is a columnist of the JoongAng Ilbo. In 1937, an improbable encounter between John Dewey — an icon of American pragmatism — and Leon Trotsky — a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary — ...