John Dewey and the Role of Scientific Method in Aesthetic Experience

Studies in Philosophy and Education 21 (1):1-15 (2002)
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In this paper I examine a controversy ongoingwithin current Deweyan philosophy of educationscholarship regarding the proper role and scopeof science in Dewey's concept of inquiry. Theside I take is nuanced. It is one that issensitive to the importance that Dewey attachesto science as the best method of solvingproblems, while also sensitive to thosestatements in Dewey that counter a wholesalereductivism of inquiry to scientific method. Iutilize Dewey's statements regarding the placeaccorded to inquiry in aesthetic experiences ascharacteristic of his method, as bestconceived

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James Scott Johnston
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Art as experience.John Dewey - 2005 - Penguin Books.
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry.John Dewey - 1938 - New York, NY, USA: Henry Holt.
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Experience and Nature.John Dewey - 1958 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 15 (1):98-98.
Experience and Nature.John Dewey - 1928 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 35 (1):10-12.

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