Analytic Philosophy and the Critical Reception of John Dewey’s Pragmatic Philosophy

Martin Ejsing Christensen is Senior Research Officer at the National Center for Ethics, Denmark, and holds a PhD in philosophy from Aarhus University. His research focuses on the history of philosophy, in particular the history of Dewey’s pragmatism.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Dewey, philosophical criticism and the internal-external distinction.- Chapter 3: Intellectual joy and the quest for truth in the age of industrialism and collective enterprise. Bertrand Russell reads Dewey.- Chapter 4: Immanence, transcendence and the varied fullness of life. Hans Reichenbach reads Dewey.- Chapter 5: Genuine empiricism, dogmatic metaphysics and the question of language. Max Black reads Dewey.- Chapter 6: Science, values and the internecine logical war between rationalism and empiricism. May Brodbeck reads Dewey.- Chapter 7: Mysticism, metaphysics, and cultural barbarism. Richard M. Gale reads Dewey.- Chapter 8: Genuine Normativity, In-/Externality and Revolutionary reconstruction. Cheryl Misak reads Dewey.- Chapter 9: The historiography of analytic philosophy and Deweyan pragmatism between self-assurance and self-awareness.