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This 10 page report discusses John Dewey's view of inquiry and the role played by experience. This is then compared with the ideas of William James regarding verification and the role of experience in it. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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person must "voluntarily" choose where he or she will make a particular "inquiry" about the truth or reality of a particular idea or thing. Individual consciousness is an active process
involving selection and interest. James understood human beings as choosing to "carve out" their personal worlds from the larger and unconnected realities of life. That would then mean that will
and interest are essential aspects of human awareness and that knowledge becomes instrumental for that process. His personal concept of "pragmatism" (although predicated on the theories of Charles S. Peirce)
is based on the relatively simple observation that an idea does not produce or reproduce anything. Instead, it prepares the person having the idea to see what it relates to
and what that then leads to. The construct of "radical empiricism" is based on the thinking that "pure experience" supersedes any form of conjecture. While he is most often
recognized as a leader in education and liberalism in education, John Dewey (1859-1952) was first and foremost a philosopher. His philosophical ideas and ideals are reflected throughout his writing,
regardless of the topic. Dewey believed that any experience but especially an aesthetic experience required action, reflection, and passive participation. For example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he
explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of objects that result in a constantly-renewed sense of personal pleasure. He was also convinced that when
science is accurately and appropriately understood, it lessens a great deal of the richly qualitative nature of immediate experience. William James William James understood the construct of pragmatism as
guiding the processes of personal experience and that such "experience" then has to be ultimately understood as "pure" experience. Pure experience is what occurs to a person without that
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