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Thinking aloud on a work in progress:

John Dewey needs to be rescued from both his fans and his foes.

If one thinks of philosophy as not separated by unbridgeable gaps from either the natural sciences nor the study of society and its needs, then one is an heir to Dewey.

Paradoxically, his writings constitute not just a source but an obstacle for the best understanding of his thought.

He wrote too much; his collected works fill 76 volumes. Navigating such a plenitude of writings is a challenge in itself. Worse, navigating his notoriously turgid prose makes reading Dewey less like a voyage of discovery than a punishment march. The contrast with the stylish wit of fellow pragmatist William James or the rigorous elegance of his contemporary Bertrand Russell is painful.

Still, engage with Dewey one must if one is to understand both the problems, possibilities, and legacy of US progressive thought in the first half of the 20th century.

More to follow on this topic over the coming months.

Image: John Dewey -- Деветьяров Руслан -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ -- Wikimedia Commons

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Pragmatism

Pragmatism is not so much realism as flexibility. There are a lot of ways to get from point A to point B. It doesn’t have to be a straight line. It’s just got to get you where you need to go. But so many of us spend so much time looking for the perfect solution that we pass up what’s right in front of us.

~ Ryan Holiday

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This week's second post introduces five characteristics of #boundedRationality and contrasts it with a received Standard Picture of #rationality.

"I suggest that we should sometimes blame the #theory." –David Thorstad, author Inquiry Under Bounds (#OUP 2024), an #openAccess book

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/07/02/inquiry-under-bounds-part-2-rationality-at-the-crossroads.aspx

#epistemology #cognitiveScience #decisionScience #history #economics #behavioralEconomics #psychology #HerbSimon #EdwardStein #science #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #pragmatism #positivism

#RaymondTallis - Setting #Time Aright

What is the true #NatureOfTime? Is time #Real? #Fundamental or #Emergent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51NdbR52dN4&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfTime #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Physics #Metaphysics #Reality #Pragmatism #CloserTuTruth #RobertKuhn