PHILOSOPHY
JOHN DEWEY AND PRAGMATIC ECONOMICS
JENNIFER K. THOMPSON
Dissertation under the direction of Professor John Lachs
The study of economics and economic life was important to John Dewey throughout his work. In this dissertation I examine the relationship of Deweys philosophy to economic life and economic theory. In particular, I consider the criticisms that Dewey makes of traditional philosophy and the ways in which the mistakes of philosophers have been replicated in the work of scientific economists. The dissertation attempts to explicate what Dewey meant by the experimental method, and it seeks to demonstrate how this method might be applied to economic life and theory. I argue that Deweys account of the experimental method is both one of the most important and the most underdeveloped aspects of his philosophy. I conclude that Deweys late characterization of philosophy without economics as an escapist intellectual gymnastic is one that Dewey scholars must attend to in much further detail if they hope to fully understand what Dewey means by pragmatism.
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-04012005-080229 |
| Date | 24 April 2005 |
| Creators | Thompson, Jennifer K. |
| Contributors | John Lachs, Michael Hodges, Henry Teloh, Robert Ehman, Roberta Herzberg |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04012005-080229/ |
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