Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
Oct 1, 1988
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809314932
ISBN-13
9780809314935
Description
This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey’s The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures delivered April–May 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as “a criticism of philosophy as attempting to attain theoretical certainty.” In the Philosophical Review Max C. Otto later elaborated: “Mr. Dewey wanted, so far as lay in his power, to crumble into dust, once and for all, ‘the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition.”
Genres
Action & Adventure
Philosophy