CPS reading group 2/04

[Thomas Graham]

Hi all,

This week, the CPS reading group will be reading "John Dewey’s
Experience and Nature" by Peter Godfrey-Smith. You can find the paper
attached to this email, the abstract below, and a new zoom link and
meeting info below that.

As always, we will meet on Wednesday, in room 6.71, from 10:30 to 11:30.

Cheers,

Tom

In lieu of an abstract:
John Dewey’s Experience and Nature has the potential to transform
several areas of philosophy. The book is lengthy and difficult, but it
has great importance for a knot of issues in epistemology,
metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. It bears also on metaphilosophy,
devoting many pages to the discipline’s characteristic pathologies,
and advancing a view of what sort of guidance ‘‘naturalism’’ provides.
Later chapters move on to discuss art, morality, and value. So this is
a major statement by Dewey. It may one day transform moral philosophy
as he hopes, but this review will focus on the central ideas of the
first two-thirds of the book. Here Dewey does succeed, I think, in
motivating us to look at his core topics—experience and nature—in a
new way. And though Dewey’s language is often obscure and unhelpful,
some of the main ideas are simpler than they look.

Zoom link:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/82595801661?pwd=abASKA1huY1LWb7kwXcWVELJa5n3sJ.1

Meeting ID: 825 9580 1661
Password: 036715

[Thomas Graham]

Hi all,

Just a reminder that this is on tomorrow. I got the date wrong in the
subject line, I hope this hasn't caused any inconvenience.

Cheers,

Tom