John Dewey’s ideas relating to pragmatism , or as he referred to it, instrumentalism, is unique in insisting that philosophy should take the methods and insights of modern science into account where
experimentalist may be thought of as individual who believe that all their knowledge can be arrived at through scientific experiments
he argues that American thought is really a continuation of European thought, contending that European ideas were ‘imported’
he insists on action being intelligent and reflective, with thought being the cornerstone of life
to be able to understand the meaning of a concept, one must be able to apply the concept to fulfil some purpose or action to see how the concept becomes enacted in real life to apply them to existence
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action and notions of inquiry Peirce viewed inquiry (logic) as any process which resulted in change from a state of doubt (a disturbance of the harmony of one’s actions, an
moving whole of interacting parts knowledge is continually being appropriated, interacting with our environment, we acquire habits (patterns of probable behaviour unique to each
dewey reflective thinking thinking could mean simply uncontrolled coursing of ideas in our heads, or the successions of imaginative incidents and episodes hanging together