I was at the Tattered Cover recently and discovered that Hildebrand's book on
Dewey is available now. (Hildebrand teaches philosophy at the University of
Colorado in Denver. I've taken a couple classes with him and he's one of my
advisors.) The book is titled "Dewey" and is one of several in a series of
"Beginner's Guides". I mention this because John Dewey was a Radical Empiricist
and, like James, his work illuminates the MOQ. I brought a copy, of course, and
I'm looking forward to reading it. For whatever it's worth, he's not just a
pragmatist. He also happens to be a really good guy. He's a husband, a dad, a
philosopher and a jazz musician, not necessarily in that order. Here's a little
taste from the introduction..."Why, Dewey asks, should each successive
generation of philosophers accept these theoretical assumptions? Why should it
be ASSUMED that there is, for example, a single over-arching principle of
morality - or a dualism between subject and object in perception? Such
predeterminations are unfounded; moreover, Dewey argues, they lead
philosophical inquiry into insoluble problems and dead ends. They divert
philosophical talent away from addressing practical problems. Instead, Dewey
urges a practical starting point, a bottom-up approach to philosophical
inquiry. Drawing strongly upon William James's 'radical empiricism', Dewey
proposes that philosophers avoid prejudicial frameworks and assumptions and
accept experience as it is lived."
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