Dewey’s logical naturalism: ¿physical or cultural?

Abstract

After a brief review of John Dewey's proposal of an Empirical Logic, in which I trace its similarities to modern Argumentation Theory or Informal Logic, I examine the type of naturalistic stance advocated in "Logic, The Theory of Inquiry" (1938), posited as a physical or organic naturalism that later opens up to a cultural or social naturalism. I critically examine the fusion of "natural causes" and "cultural reasons" in Dewey's approach and conclude that, while it consistently accounts for the continuity between the two, it does not resolve the incompatibility between epistemic perspectives.