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Once upon a time, philosophical naturalism was a robust pan-discipline enterprise. Its advocates promoted the method of empirical science in an all-out battle for the new twentieth century against entrenched theological and conservative forces. In America, the battle started late but proved to be decisive. The early champions of naturalism, like Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, and W. K. Clifford, were British; America had slumbered in idealistic dreams for an extra generation. Not until Dewey's generation, born around the time of the Civil War and its aftermath, would naturalism find its footing in academia. Ironically, the acknowledged leader of American naturalism started out as a Hegelian idealist. John Dewey's respect for the natural and social sciences took him places where idealism could not go, but he never forgot its snares and seductions. Even while the succeeding generation raised the banner of realism during the first two decades of the twentieth century, Dewey saw well how this realistic movement was still trapped in dualistic Cartesian premises about consciousness, selfawareness, and agency. Dewey's naturalism went deeper and spread its roots wider than any other of th

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Author

Alan Costall

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0022-5061)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)