El pragmatismo es, desde su génesis, una reacción. Nace como reacción al racionalismo, a la actitud teorética, a la filosofía entendida como contemplación de la verdad, al carácter objetivante e imparcial del investigador. También es posible decir que el pragmatismo nace como reacción al cúmulo de dualismos que conlleva la tradición filosófica y en ese sentido, el pragmatismo nace como una filosofía que busca restaurar la continuidad propia de la vida humana. / Tesis

En la historia de la filosofía, se pueden reconocer épocas indeleblemente marcadas por la necesidad de comprender un complejo proceso de cambios, con alcances sociales y políticos. Allí están las disquisiciones filosóficas del siglo II D.C., tratando de hacer comprensibles las relaciones entre la filosofía y el cristianismo naciente. También encajan en dicha descripción los escritos filosóficos del siglo XII que procuraban hacer viable una relación entre el aristotelismo, recién llegado de oriente, y la filosofía cristiana asentada en occidente. En mi opinión, son casos emblemáticos de tal historiografía: el conjunto de escritos filosóficos del siglo XVI encaminados a comprender la modernidad y la ciencia, así como los escritos del siglo XVIII esclareciendo el siglo de las luces. / Tesis

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-161). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

This study presents a comparative analytical investigation of two divergent yet parallel doctrines of self-realization. John Dewey, a distinguished American thinker, represents a naturalist pragmatist conception of self-realization on the one hand, and 'Allama Tabataba'i, a renowned Muslim philosopher, an Islamic perception on the other. While Dewey is considered a spokesperson for modern American pragmatist and humanist thought, 'Allama may be seen as typical of Islamic Shi'i thinking. In dealing with their conceptualizations of self-realization, the intention in this study is to focus on some significant aspects of the human self, to rediscover its potentiality and to determine the wisdom behind self-realization from a comparative perspective. After outlining the two thinkers' scholarly backgrounds, instructional contexts, sources, methods, works and purposes, the study examines certain specific issues. It investigates their understandings of human nature, and explores their positions on moral experience and human character, as well as on the arts and sciences as vehicles for self-realization. As its final chapter, the study elaborates the basic elements and manifestations of self-realization as depicted in Dewey's and 'Allama's systems of thought. This research aims at clarifying the parallels, similarities and differences that exist between the two scholars, through an in-depth comparison of their respective naturalist and Islamic approaches and attitudes.

Univ., Diss--Toronto. / Includes bibliographical references and index. If liberalism is a faith, what becomes of the separation of church and state? -- Pragmatism, liberalism, and the quarrel between science and religion -- Rorty's repudiation of epistemology -- Rortian irony and the "de-divinization" of liberalism -- Religion and Rawls's freestanding liberalism -- Stanley Fish and the demise of the separation of church and state -- Fish, Locke, and religious neutrality -- Reason, indifference, and the aim of religious freedom -- Appendix : a reply to Stanley Fish.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Dissertation Committee: Philip Phenix, Leland Jacobs, . Contains a critique of the thought of Rousseau Herbart and Dewey with regard to their conceptions of choice making and choice controlling.--Cf. leaf iv. Includes bibliographical references.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2004 / Inclui bibliografia / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o pensamento filosófico e educacional de John Dewey (1859-1952), em sua influência sobre a educação brasileira através das idéias e da atuação política de Anísio Teixeira (1900-1971). Concentrado-se na educaç

x, 95 p. : ill. / While John Dewey's work on the philosophy of education provides a robust descriptive account of educational experience, it does not provide anything like a critical system for the analysis of particular educational curricula. This lack has led to a common confusion with regard to the nature of an inquiry based education: inquiry too often becomes the content, rather than the method, of education. In this thesis, I will show how Dewey's analysis of educational experience can provide grounds for a critical apparatus that might be applied to any curriculum, though especially those founded upon the process of inquiry. This critical approach will be applied to an example case, the "ice hands" activity from Douglass Llewellyn's <italic>Inquire Within,</italic> demonstrating the gap that often exists between the process of inquiry as a description of the process of learning and the process of inquiry as the content of a lesson plan. / Committee in charge: Scott L. Pratt, Chairperson

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-03-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:41:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 araujo_rcp_dr_arafcl.pdf: 402907 bytes, checksum: 65efaef7dae8afda714f7304e2fd9dad (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre o livro Logic: the theory of inquiry de John Dewey, publicado originalmente em 1938. O objetivo é compreender os argumentos de Dewey acerca da lógica, caracterizada como teoria da investigação, e situá-los no conjunto do pensamento deweyano, de maneira a explicitar sua ligação com temáticas educacionais e políticas, focalizando especialmente a noção de democracia. Para isso, são analisadas também as obras Como pensamos e Democracia e educação, do mesmo autor. O método empregado para exame do Logic conta com duas chaves interpretativas: a primeira advém da teoria da argumentação desenvolvida por Chaïm Perelman e Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca no livro Tratado da argumentação: a nova retórica, e a segunda, do modelo jurisprudencial de exposição e análise de silogismos elaborado por Stephen Toulmin em Os usos do argumento. / This work presents the results of a research on the book Logic: the theory of inquiry by John Dewey, originally published in 1938. The objective is to understand the arguments about the logic proposed by Dewey, characterized as a theory of inquiry, and to situate them throughout the Dewey’s thought, so as to clarify its connection with educational and political issues, focusing especially the deweyan notion of democracy. To do so, the work also analyses Democracy and education and How we think by Dewey. The method used to examine Logic has two theoretical sources: first, the theory of arguments developed by Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca in the book Treatise of argumentation: the new rhetoric; second, the model of juridical exposition and analysis of syllogisms developed by Stephen Toulmin in The uses of argument.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:42:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 costalopes_v_dr_arafcl.pdf: 362341 bytes, checksum: ae0f2fc12d277eed0383947607fbc4c0 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente trabalho analisa as concepções filosóficas de John Dewey, tomando como principal referência o livro The quest for certainty: a study of the relation of knowledge and action, publicado em 1929, no qual o autor propõe utilizar o método das ciências experimentais no campo das ciências humanas, em especial para o exame dos juízos morais. Nesse livro, Dewey defende o rompimento da dicotomia entre teoria e prática e atribui caráter probabilístico aos conhecimentos advindos da investigação científica, tomando como exemplo a mecânica quântica. Os referenciais metodológicos empregados na análise do discurso deweyano advêm da nova retórica, teoria proposta por Chaïm Perelman e Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca em Tratado da argumentação. O objetivo do trabalho é mostrar a proximidade entre Dewey e o ceticismo, tomando por base as concepções de Pirro de Élis sistematizadas por Enesidemo e Sexto Empírico, bem como desenvolvimentos recentes dessa filosofia. A intenção mais ampla do trabalho é contribuir para a discussão de teses que divergem em relação ao tema focalizado nesta pesquisa: de um lado, as que responsabilizam o ceticismo deweyano pelos males da educação contemporânea, e, de outro, as que atribuem a Dewey a origem de importantes progressos na pedagogia. / The present study analyses the philosophical conceptions of John Dewey presented in the book The quest for certainty: a study of the relation of knowledge and action, published in 1929, in which the author proposes to use the method of experimental sciences in human sciences, specially to the examination of moral judgments. In this book, Dewey defends the disruption of the dichotomy between practical and theory and attributes a probabilistic character to the scientific inquiry knowledge, citing as an example the quantun mechanics. The methodology adopted to analyze deweyan discourse is the new rhetoric, based upon Treatise of argumentation by Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. The objective of the this work is to show to the proximity between Dewey and the skepticism, having as a basis the conceptions of Pyrrho from Élis systematized by Aenesidemus and Sextus Empiricus, as well as recent developments of this philosophy. The work also intends to contribute for the discussion of theses which diverge on the theme of this work: on the one hand, the ones that blame Dewey’s skepticism for the harmfulness of contemporary education; and, on the other, those which attribute the origin of important progress in pedagogy to Dewey.