The later works, 1925 - 1953. 4. 1929 : [The quest for certainty]

• Author(s): John Dewey,
• Publisher: SIU Press
• Pages: 326
• ISBN_10: 0809328143
  ISBN_13: 9780809328147
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / Logic , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern , Philosophy / Movements / Pragmatism , Philosophy / Individual Philosophers , Political Science / Essays , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Social Science / Essays ,

Description:... This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's The Quest for Cer­tainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures deliv­ered April-May 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as "a criti­cism of philosophy as attempting to at­tain theoretical certainty." In the Philo­sophical Review Max C. Otto later elaborated: "Mr. Dewey wanted, so far as lay in his power, to crumble into dust, once and for all, 'the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition."