David, I look forward to hearing about the book.
Which Tattered Cover do you frequent? thanks--mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "david buchanan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:02 PM Subject: [MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey 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." _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howi tworks_012009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
