Considering the consequences. John Dewey's Logic of Experience

Abstract

Despite the scant echo of Dewey's contributions in the field of Logic, the development of Logic during the second half of the twentieth century and during the twenty-first century can be considered a confirmation of Dewey's ideas about the role of logic in relation to knowledge. Logic, in the precise sense that Dewey gives the term, has been the constant concern of Dewey's philosophy and is the pinnacle that crowns his project of a naturalization of philosophy. In the case of Logic, Dewey’s project tries to show how logical forms arise in the operation of investigating and are in charge of controlling the investigation so that it can produce warranted assertability. Two consequences follow from this approach, that is, the empirical character of logical principles and hence its naturalization and a radical reformulation of the classic problem of truth.