PHIL 115 Study Guide - Attention, Authoritarian Personality, John Dewey
4 Apr 2013
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Intensely conscious of being a replacement child. Thinking like he had to live two lives. Wanted to develop a way of thinking rooted in physiology: organic character of human thought. Theory of knowledge and truth based on an organic conception of the mind. At the time, almost every american university president was a clergyman. One option for secular: john hopkins university built on german secular research model. Philosophy should aspire to become science, or be in the service of it. Dewey with scientific background comes with view of pragmatism that can be kind of quasi-scientific way of doing philosophy. He never thought it would become a full-blown science, but there is something special about scientific knowledge. Philosophy of education, every major discipline of philosophy, dewey was making a contribution to. Outlawry of war movement- tries to outlaw war. Na ve, but seemed possible to dewey, where they could pass laws that would legally ban war.
