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our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

of education is determined by the many forces struggling against each other during any given era, forces such as political, religi...

the baby chick, that shortly after it hatches makes a few stabs for food, as in beak-eye coordination. Masters that concept and b...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was n...

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

education, and Dewey himself was immersed in this topic. Dewey (1964) suggests that education is something that should be aligned ...

In five pages this research paper considers how democracy is the type of government that most adequately suits human nature in a d...

his detractors?with an abandonment of standards within US classrooms in favor of a focus on growth and self-fulfillment (Berkowitz...

In twenty pages personal development is considered within the context of such developmental theories as John Dewey's Development M...

In five pages this research paper discusses what makes a 'just' community from John Dewey's standpoint that involves social freedo...

In five pages this paper examines the US educational philosophy from an educator's perspective with John Dewey's philosophy among ...

a social reformer. In his writings, these areas are explored. He inherited his theory of pragmatic tradition form Charles Sander...

In five pages the educational theories of John Dewey and E.D. Hirsch are compared as they are reflected in the works Dewey on Educ...

The relationship between theory and practice in education is a long-standing controversy. This is one of the issues discussed in t...

In five pages this paper discusses how experience is explained by John Dewey in a description of aesthetics. Five sources are cit...

This paper looks at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

In six pages Rorty's article is analyzed within the context of its representation of solidarity vs. objectvity. There are no other...

are relativist ones" (Putnam as cited in Geras, 1995, p. 108). At face value, it does appear that Rortys ideas are not objective....

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Richard's crown usurper is examined in terms of the differences between Richard and Bolingbroke a...

he appears sincere and supportive, such as when Richard asks what one has said of him, and Buckingham replies "Nothing that I resp...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

Americans were asking each other. I decided to go to Russia to work, study, and to lend a hand in the construction of a society w...

Oakes & Lipton have said lies in individual educators who "construct something whole and wonderful." (Oakes & Lipton, 2002, 3). In...

be verified (Dewey, 1938). Pragmatism, then, is the application of scientific methods to areas commonly referred to as ideals and ...