Pragmatic Naturalism: An Introduction

Index

Index Abduction, 95 Absolute: Good, 7; values, 37, 125; Being, Ill; Mind, III Accommodation: and adjustment , 9-10; and evolution, 47 Adaptation: and adjustment, 9-10; and evolution, 47 Adjustment: defined, 9; and accommodation , 9; and adaptation , 9; ambiguities of, 13; and integration, 14 Aesthetic: and emotions, 161; qualities, 164; forms of, 166; and morals, 169-70; ideal in education, 202-4 Ames, Edward Scribner, xxii Approbation, 146-47 A priori method, 66 Aristotle, 3-4, 87-88, 92, 140 Art: philosophy of, 160-70; and culture, 167; and morals, 169-70; and impulse, 203 Authority: method of, 64-66 Asceticism: in morals, 143 Bacon, Francis, 10, 95 Beauty, 166-67 Behavioral: and behavioristic, 44; and values, 126 Belief(sJ, commonsense, 26-27; scientific, 26-27; methods of fixing, 64-67; and consequences , 84-85; and truth, 114 Bergson, Henri, 88, 89 Berkeley, George, 92 Boole, George, 98 Boolean Algebra, xvi, 93 Bruno, 65 Cause: and mechanistic determinism , 88-89; and teleology , 88-89; and context, 90; "causes of" and "reasons for," 91 Center for Dewey Studies, xxv Chance: as real, 134. See also Tychism Change: and natural species, 5; and values, 127-28 Charles S. Peirce Society, xxv Classification: as method, 3 Cognitive, 32 Conceptions. See Concepts Concepts: and experience, 24; as "given," 30-32; and rationalism, 61; relations to other concepts, 108-98; and percepts, 108-9 Consciousness: as entity, 54-55; and education, 210 Continuity: as generic trait of existence, 25; as naturalistic postulate, 33; and aesthetics, INDEX 23 8 33; and history, 34; of human life and nature, 41; as means-ends, 63; and inquiry, 102 Control: as method in education , 215 Creativity, 56-57 Critical common-sensism, 27, 96-97 Darwin, Charles: influence of, 3; and changing species, 6; and survival, 6; and traditional beliefs, 171 Data, 104, 115 Deduction, 95 Definition: as method, 3 Deism, 170 Democracy: methods o( 15556 ; ideals of, 156; and education , 200-202 De Morgan, Augustus, 97 Denotative method, 27 Descartes, Rene, xv, 26, 33, 81, 82 Desire, 31, 129, 135 Determinism, 88-89, 133-34 Dewey, John: life, xxi-xxiii Direction: in education, 215-16 Discontinuity: and continuity, 33; in experience, 37-38; as perplexing and problematic, 62,63 Dualism: of percepts and concepts , 24; of feeling and knowing, 31-32; of self and nature, 54; of the individual and the social, 159-60 Education: as a laboratory for philosophy, 185; and societies, 186-87; as apprenticeship , 192; and culture, 194; as sharing, 195; and psychology, 208-9 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 170 Emotions: and immediacy, 31; as identified, 46; and reason, 50; and art, 161-65 Empiricism: as selective emphasis , 28-30; and sensations , 61, 107; and value theory, 130 Equality, 153 Essences, 3 Evidence, 73 Evolution: and Darwin, 3-8; emergent, 3, 17-18, 19; and natural forms,S; and knowledge , 7; and ends, values, 7; and truth, 7, 105-6 Experience: and nature, 22; "pure experiences/' 22-23; gross, 23, as stream, 23, 107; and denotative method, 27; as comprehensive, 61; as immediate 68 Experimental: as a way of thinking, xiii-xiv, 96; as a method of science, 103 Experimentalism, xiii-xiv, 103 Feeling: as basis of sensations and concepts, 23; physical and psychical, 23-24; immediate , 30-31; as noncognitive , 31; and Firstness, 89, 160-61; and art, 161-62 Final End, 4 First Cause, 4 Firstness, 34, 89 Forced options, 112 Fraternity: as cooperation, 155 Freedom: and indeterminism, INDEX 239 134; and discontinuity, 134; and social philosophy, 15455 ; of mind, 198; as uncontrolled activity, 218 Galileo, 3, 65 Generic traits of existence, 25, 33, 63 Genetic fallacy, 21-22, 90 Gesture, 53, 79 Goals: in education, 196-97; and growth, 206-7 God: and morals, 138; as Mind, 170; as Spirit, 170; as absolute and finite, 172; as Divine Being , 172; as supernatural, 176-77; as unification of ideals , 178-79; as active relation , 179 Good: relation to truth, 113; source of, 136; uniqueness in moral situations, 147 Growth, 206-7 Guidance: in education, 216-17 Habits: and natural laws, 6, 89; as generalized responses, 47; as flexible, inflexible, 47; in education, 215; and change, 217 Hall, G. Stanley, xxii Harmony: and adjustment, 12; as generic trait of existence, 25; and disharmony, 38 Harris, William T., xxii Hegel, G. W. T., 20, 150 Hegelian logic, 94 Human life: and emergence, 40-41; and naturalism, 41; and environment, 42; and impulsion, 43; and excitation...