Normativity and Practical Deliberation in John Dewey: Elements for a contemporary reading
Abstract The aim of this paper is to explore John Dewey’s solution of the problem of normativity that has confronted skeptics and dogmatists for centuries. Dewey’s main strategy is to elaborate a hypothesis to explain how the de jure or normative principles have an anchor and a starting point in practical, de facto activity. In order to reconstruct Dewey’s conception of normativity, and taking into account the misinterpretations it has received, we will first analyze the nature of the problem -a problem that, from Dewey’s point of view, is a political one. Second, we will show how our author’s conception of rationality diverges from the dominant conception, which making reference to the still prevalent distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification, takes justification as its basic component. Third, after emphasizing the centrality of the practical problem-solving process as the core of rationality in Dewey’s thought, we will analyze his conception of practical deliberation, which is thus seen as the origin of all normativity.
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Dewey, John (1965). Teoría de la vida moral [1932]. Traducción de Rafael Castillo Dibildox. México D.F.: Herrero Hermanos.
Dewey, John (2008). Teoría de la valoración. Un debate con el positivismo sobre la dicotomía de hechos y valores. [1939]. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
Dewey, John (2012). Unmodern philosophy and modern philosophy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
di Berardino, A. y Faerna, Á. M. (2008). Introducción a Dewey. En John Dewey, Teoría de la valoración. Un debate con el positivismo sobre la dicotomía de hechos y valores. [1939]. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
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Faerna, Á. M. (2006). Significado y valor: La crítica pragmatista al emotivismo. Quaderns de filosofia i ciència, 36, 27-39.
Faerna, Á. M. (2011). Dewey's Value Theory and the Analytic Tradition of Moral Philosophy. En L. A. Hickman, K. P. Skowronski, J. A. Rea (Eds.), The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections on Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society (p. 13). Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi Press. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042032330_010
Knorr Cetina, Karin (2005). La fabricación del conocimiento. Un ensayo sobre el carácter constructivista y contextual de la ciencia [1981]. Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.
Kusch, Martin (1995). Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. Londres: Routledge.
Latour, Bruno, Woolgar, Steve (1995). La Vida en el Laboratorio: la Construcción de los Hechos Científicos [1986]. Madrid. Alianza Editorial.
Laudan, Larry (1980). Why was the logic of discovery abandoned? En Thomas Nickles (Ed.), Scientific Discovery, Logic and Rationality (pp. 173-184). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Reidel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8986-3_6
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Macagno, Fabrizio, Walton, Douglas (2018). Practical Reasoning Arguments: A Modular Approach. Argumentation, 32(4), 519-547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-018-9450-5
Marcuse, Herbert (1941). Review: Dewey, John, Theory of Valuation. Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 9(1), 144-148. https://doi.org/10.5840/zfs19419110
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Peirce, Charles Sanders (1965). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Reichenbach, Hans (1938). Experience and Prediction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Salmon, Wesley (1973). Logic. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
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Sinclair, Robert (2014). Dewey and White on Value, Obligation, and Practical Judgment. SATS, 15(1), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1515/sats-2014-0003
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Toulmin, Stephen E. (2003). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511840005 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511840005
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Walton, Douglas (1990). Practical Reasoning: Goal-Driven, Knowledge-Based, Action-Guiding Argumentation. Ethics,102(1), 179-180. https://doi.org/10.1086/293390
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