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6Prospects for Mathematizing Dewey's Logical TheoryIn F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), Dewey's logical theory: new studies and interpretations, Vanderbilt University Press. 2002.This essay discusses ways in which contemporary mathematical logic may be reconciled with John Dewey’s logical theory. Standard formal techniques drawn from dynamic modal logic, situation theory, generative grammar, generalized quantifier theory, category theory, lambda calculi, game theoretic semantics, network exchange theory, etc., are accommodated within a framework consistent with Dewey’s Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938). This essay outlines some basic features of Dewey’s logical theory,…Read more
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14Correlates of Social Cognition and Psychopathic Traits in a Community-Based Sample of MalesFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Social cognition is the ability to identify, understand, and interpret mental states and emotions. Psychopathic traits are typically described in two ways; Primary: shallow affect, emotional detachment, and relationship difficulties, and Secondary Psychopathic Traits: antisocial traits, impulsiveness, and emotional dysregulation. People with high psychopathic traits tend to perform lower on measures of social cognition. This study investigated the relationship of social cognition to primary and …Read more
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15Multi-Modal Dual-Task Measurement: A New Virtual Reality for AssessmentFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2021.
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Nicholas Rescher, Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (4): 282-284. 2000.
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9(Anti)Realist Implications of a Pragmatist Dual-Process Active-Externalist Theory of ExperiencePhilosophia Scientiae 12 187-211. 2008.Les questions relatives à l’opposition réalisme/antiréalisme sont abordées à la lumière d’une philosophie pragmatiste de l’esprit. On élabore une philosophie pragmatiste de l’esprit dans les termes d’une théorie ‘externaliste-active’ de l’expérience vue comme double processus. Cette théorie pose en principe deux types d’expérience tels que la ‘mentalité’ (en tant que capacité à penser, émettre des hypothèses, formuler des théories, raisonner, délibérer) constitue l’un des deux types d’expérience…Read more
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4065Ecological Psychology in Context (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (99): 54-57. 2004.
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42The Pragmatic MaximThe Commens Encyclopedia: The Digital Encyclopedia of Peirce Studies. 2001.What is the pragmatic maxim? The aim here is to present in an elementary and intuitive way what the pragmatic maxim was originally intended to convey, at least in Peirce’s earliest statements, and to briefly discuss some of the consequences of this maxim for philosophical method.
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Dewey's New Logic: A Reply to RussellTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (4): 887-905. 1995.
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8Dewey's New Logic: A Reply to RussellUniversity of Chicago Press. 1994.Although John Dewey is celebrated for his work in the philosophy of education and acknowledged as a leading proponent of American pragmatism, he might also have enjoyed more of a reputation for his philosophy of logic had Bertrand Russell not attacked him so fervently on the subject. In _Dewey's New Logic_, Tom Burke analyzes the debate between Russell and Dewey that followed the 1938 publication of Dewey's _Logic: The Theory of Inquiry_. Here, he argues that Russell failed to understand Dewey's…Read more
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5John Dewey's Essays in Experimental LogicSouthern Illinois University Press. 2007.Offering a new edition of Dewey's 1916 collection of essays This critical edition of John Dewey's 1916 collection of writings on logic, Essays in Experimental Logic—in which Dewey presents his concept of logic as the theory of inquiry and his unique and innovative development of the relationship of inquiry to experience—is the first scholarly reprint of the work in one volume since 1954. Essays in Experimental Logic, edited by D. Micah Hester and Robert B. Talisse, uses the authoritative texts f…Read more
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13Qualities, Universals, Kinds, and the New Riddle of InductionIn F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), Dewey's logical theory: new studies and interpretations, Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 225-235. 2002.Logic for Dewey is a normative inquiry into the nature of inquiry itself. Goodman’s grue example is assessed in light of Dewey's vocabulary for logic as presented in his 1938 Logic.
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39A preliminary analysis of the suppressive effects of denatonium saccharideBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 24 (3): 229-232. 1986.
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203Browning on Inquiry into Inquiry, Part 2Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (2): 157-176. 2009.This is the second of two papers addressing Douglas Browning 's "Designation, Characterization, and Theory in Dewey's Logic" where he distinguishes a series of pretheoretical and theoretical stages for developing a theory of logic. The first paper recounts Browning 's original version of these stages and the ramifications of not clearly distinguishing them. I respond to Browning 's claim that in Burke 1994 I made two such mistakes of not properly distinguishing theoretical and pretheoretical sta…Read more
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74The Role of Abstract Reference in Mead's Account of Human OriginsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (3): 567-601. 2005.This paper addresses issues regarding human origins, drawing particularly on George Herbert Mead 's account of the emergence of self consciousness as a product of social and physical evolution. Some of John Dewey's ideas on the nature of thought and language are added to that account. The so called "great leap" in human evolution that occurred some 50,000 years ago is attributed not just to the emergence of symbols or language but to the development of fully recursive languages suited for refere…Read more
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499Pragmatism and Reference (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 37 (108): 22-25. 2009.
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1018Empiricism, Pragmatism, and the Settlement MovementThe Pluralist 5 (3): 73-88. 2010.This paper examines the settlement movement (a social reform movement during the Progressive Era, roughly 1890–1920) in order to illustrate what pragmatism is and is not. In 1906, Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch proposed an analysis of settlement house methods. Because of her emphasis on interpretation and action, and because of the nature of the settlement movement as a social reform effort with vitally important consequences for everyone involved, it might be thought that her analysis would be prag…Read more
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368Dewey and Russell on the Possibility of Immediate KnowledgeStudies in Philosophy and Education 17 (2/3): 149-153. 1998.This paper compares Dewey's and Russell's views of "immediate knowledge." Dewey was perhaps mistaken in attributing to Russell the view that immediate sense data provide incorrigible foundations for knowledge. Russell's characterization of sensing plus attention as the most immediate knowing of which we have experience nevertheless remains a valid target of Dewey's criticisms. These two philosophers developed very different theories of logic and knowledge, language and experience. Given the …Read more
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79Browning on inquiry into inquiry, Part ITransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (1): 27-44. 2009.This is the first of two papers addressing Browning’s “Designation, Characterization, and Theory in Dewey’s Logic” (2002) where he distinguishes a series of pre-theoretical and theoretical stages for developing a theory of logic. The second of these two papers will recommend a modified version of this scheme of stages of inquiry into inquiry. The present paper recounts Browning’s original version of these stages and the ramifications of not clearly distinguishing them. I respond to Browning’s cl…Read more
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117Dewey's new logic: a reply to RussellUniversity of Chicago Press. 1994.John Dewey is celebrated for his work in the philosophy of education and acknowledged as a leading proponent of American pragmatism. His philosophy of logic, on the other hand, is largely unheard of. In Dewey's New Logic, Burke analyzes portions of the debate between Dewey and Bertrand Russell that followed the 1938 publication of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. Burke shows how Russell failed to understand Dewey, and how Dewey's philosophy of logic is centrally relevant to contemporary dev…Read more
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2The concept of justicecontinuum. 2011.In The Concept of Justice, Patrick Burke explores and argues for a return to traditional ideas of ordinary justice in opposition to conceptions of 'social justice' that came to dominate political thought in the 20th Century. Arguing that our notions of justice have been made incoherent by the radical incompatibility between instinctive notions of ordinary justice and theoretical conceptions of social justice, the book goes on to explore the historical roots of these ideas of social justice. Find…Read more