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Tiles, James E., 1944-. Dewey. London: Routledge, 1990, xiv, 261pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, light wear along edges of cover. The arguments of the philosophers. - John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American educationalist and philosopher. His highly original version of pragmatism - his "instrumentalism" - held a pre-eminent place in American philosophy during the first half of this century. This sympathetic study of Dewey traces the consequences of the dominant characteristic of Dewey's thought, which was his desire to resist thinking of the main aspects of human life in isolation from one another, and to resist the institutionalization of their separation. He believed that human experience must be understood as activity in which a form of life adjusts to its environment, and he resisted widely-held doctrines regarding the privacy of experience. According to Dewey, human thought is dependent on participation of linguistic forms of culture, factual discourse is an organic constituent of practical thought, and intellectual progress is inseparable from social and moral progress. 9780415053105 ISBN 0415053102.…