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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Wellspring or Circuit?Commentary on Dewey and the Aesthetic UnconsciousnessFrank X. RyanEditor's note: This article contains material similar to a book review by the same author previously published in The Pluralist, vol. 18, no. 2, pp 114–21. The present article represents a further critical use of this material that we deem worthy of publication.in this vital and splendidly crafted work, Bethany Henning recovers a philosophy of aes…Read more
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconsciousness: The Vital Depths of Experience by Bethany HenningFrank X. RyanDewey and the Aesthetic Unconsciousness: The Vital Depths of Experience Bethany Henning. Lexington Books, 2022.In this important and splendidly crafted book, Bethany Henning recovers a philosophy of aesthetic wisdom distinct from the narrow epistemological lens dominant today. Unlike the psychological atomism of European…Read more
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    James A. Good, A Search for Unity in Diversity: The "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" in the Philosophy of John Dewey (review)
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (1): 215-225. 2007.
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    Communication and Creative Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Omar Swartz, ed
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (4): 571-573. 2012.
    In the 1980s and 1990s, the Keynesian model of government regulation and social entitlement was widely overrun by a resurgence of marketplace economics. Far from fulfilling its promise of unbridled personal freedom and global prosperity, however, the ensuing decade of economic crisis and ongoing disenfranchisement has led many to rethink fundamental beliefs about social justice and the distribution of wealth. Not surprisingly, John Dewey’s call for a “Great Community” figures prominently in this…Read more
  • Science and pragmatism : an introduction
    In Frank X. Ryan, Brian E. Butler, James A. Good & John R. Shook (eds.), The real Metaphysical Club: the philosophers, their debates, and selected writings from 1870 to 1885, Suny Press, State University of New York. 2019.
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    The real Metaphysical Club: the philosophers, their debates, and selected writings from 1870 to 1885 (edited book)
    with Brian E. Butler, James A. Good, and John R. Shook
    SUNY Press, State University of New York. 2019.
    The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s associated with Harvard, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America's distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand's bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James - appear in this book, alongside other thinkers such as John Dewey who were never in the Club. The Real …Read more
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:A Search for Unity in Diversity: The "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" in the Philosophy of John DeweyFrank X. RyanJames A. Good A Search for Unity in Diversity: The "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" in the Philosophy of John Dewey Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. xxx + 288 pp.Among the revelations of Dewey's rare moments of autobiographical reflection, none has generated more curiosity and investigative zeal than his 1930 claim …Read more
  • Circles of Inquiry: John Dewey's Philosophy of Transaction
    Dissertation, Emory University. 1996.
    This encyclopedic reevaluation of Dewey's philosophy is inspired by his seminal yet neglected conception of "transaction." In simplest terms, transaction "sees together" what other philosophies divide into dualisms of mind-body, self-world, and subject-object. Though the word "transaction" is of late coinage, its rudiments underlie Dewey's early psychology of the reflex circuit, his evolution from idealism to pragmatism, and his bold quest to legitimize instrumentalism as a tertium quid between …Read more
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    For several decades, renewed interest in the connection between perception and knowledge has sustained a robust debate over external world skepticism. Recently, however, a growing consensus claims the skeptical challenge has been substantially met, and that realism in some robust form has emerged a clear victor. I invite us to rethink this consensus in a two-part response. The first forges a temporary alliance with skepticism against prominent forms of contemporary realism. That these fail to re…Read more
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    Affirming Dewey's Philosophy: A Rejoinder
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (4). 1997.
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    Primary experience as settled meaning
    Philosophy Today 38 (1): 29-42. 1994.
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    This article sympathetically explores the phenomenological pragmatism of Robert E. Innis in Consciousness and the Play of Forms and Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense. Disputing both the realistic view that perception underlies semiosis and deconstructionist reversals of this, Innis claims they are inextricably interwoven. He forges an alliance between pragmatists Peirce and Dewey, and Continental phenomenologists Polanyi, Bühler, and Cassirer, a "polyphony" that also yields a richly aesthetic cr…Read more
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    Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2): 312-314. 2001.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 39.2 (2001) 312-314 [Access article in PDF] Shook, John R. Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality.The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 316. Cloth, $46.00; Paper, $22.95. The current renaissance of American pragmatism, and John Dewey's philosophy in particular, began two decades ago with Richard Rorty's refashioning of Dewe…Read more