El naturalismo lógico de Dewey: ¿físico o cultural?
- 1 UCM
ISSN: 2386-8066
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: Número monográfico. La investigación: normas y prácticas (La Lógica de John Dewey a discusión)
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 325-350
Type: Article
More publications in: Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica
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.