Episode 127: John Dewey on Experience and the World
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2015
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
On Experience and Nature (1925), through ch. 4. What's the relationship between our experience and the world that science investigates? Dewey thinks that these are one and the same, and philosophies that call some part of it (like atoms or Platonic forms) the real part while the experienced world is a distortion are unjustified.
End song: "Uncontrollable Fear" by The MayTricks from So Chewy! (1993).
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| 0:41.3 | Our question for episode 127 is something like, |
| 0:43.2 | what's the relationship between experience and the world? |
| 0:45.8 | And we read John Dewey's experience and nature, |
| 0:48.8 | chapters 1 through 4, from 1925. |
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