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Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (Classic Reprint)
Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude - Classic Reprint Author:John Dewey THE NEED FOR A RECOVERY OF PHILOSOPHY — JOHN DEWEY — Intellectual advance occurs in two ways. At times increase of knowledge is organized about old conceptions, while these are expanded, elaborated and refined, but not seriously revised, much less abandoned. At other times, the increase of knowledge demands qualitative rather than quantitative cha... more »nge; alteration, not addition. Men's minds grow cold to their former intellectual concerns; ideas that were burning fade; interests that were urgent seem z^emote. Men face in another direction; their older perplexities are unreal; considerations passed over as negligible loom up. Former problems may not have been solved, but they no longer press for solution.
Philosophy is no exception to the rule. But it is unusualty conservative-not, necessarily, in proffering solutions, but in clinging to problems. It has been so allied with theology and theological morals as representatives of men's chief interests, that radical alteration has been shocki
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CONTENTS; PAGE; The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy 3 John Dewey, Columbia University; Reformation of Logic 70; Addison W Moore, University of Chicago; Intelligence and Mathematics 118; Harold Chapman Brown, Leland Stanford, Jr, University; Scientific Method and Individual Thinker 176 George H Mead, University of Chicago; Consciousness and Psychology 228 Boyd H Bode, University of Illinois; The Phases of the Economic Interest 282 Henry Waldgrave Stuart, Leland Stanford, Jr, University,; The Moral Life and the Construction of; Values and Standards354; James Hayden Tufts, University of Chicago; Value and Existence in Philosophy, Art, and Religion409; Horace M Kail en, University of Wisconsin