John Dewey (1859∿1952) のプラグマティズム

Pragmatism, one of the representative ideas in the contemporary world, is a new type of philosophy, which was born and has developed in the new soil of Amrica, different essentially from that of West Europe. In the first place, it was published by Charles Peirce in 1878 and evolved by William James in 1907,but completed in form by John Dewey. The pragmatism of Dewey is called instrumentalism or experimentalism. He laid an amphasis upon such ideas as change, situation, continuity, moving etc., interpreting "experience" as the dynamic interaction between the organism and the environment. In the present thesis, I divide the pragmatism of Dewey into three main parts-epistemology, metaphysics, and theory of value. Each part is described in accordance with his intention of experimentalism. In my opinion, there should be, according to Dewey, one common feature in each part of his philosophy : that is to consider everything in the light of experimental operation. Dewey thought of nature as the fundamental basis of the world, and upon that basis he inquired into experience, knowledge and value. In dealing with these matters, he cancelled the traditions of West European Philosophy, having introduced an entirely new element of instrumentalism into the study of philosophical problems.Pragmatism, one of the representative ideas in the contemporary world, is a new type of philosophy, which was born and has developed in the new soil of Amrica, different essentially from that of West Europe. In the first place, it was published by Charles Peirce in 1878 and evolved by William James in 1907,but completed in form by John Dewey. The pragmatism of Dewey is called instrumentalism or experimentalism. He laid an amphasis upon such ideas as change, situation, continuity, moving etc., interpreting "experience" as the dynamic interaction between the organism and the environment. In the present thesis, I divide the pragmatism of Dewey into three main parts-epistemology, metaphysics, and theory of value. Each part is described in accordance with his intention of experimentalism. In my opinion, there should be, according to Dewey, one common feature in each part of his philosophy : that is to consider everything in the light of experimental operation. Dewey thought of nature as the fundamental basis of the world, and upon that basis he inquired into experience, knowledge and value. In dealing with these matters, he cancelled the traditions of West European Philosophy, having introduced an entirely new element of instrumentalism into the study of philosophical problems