Experience and Nature
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Experience and Nature is a major philosophical work by John Dewey that articulates his naturalistic and pragmatist account of human experience and reality.
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| Experience and Nature canonical | 8 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Experience and Nature Context triple: [John Dewey, notableWork, Experience and Nature]
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A.
The Concept of Nature
The Concept of Nature is a 1920 philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that analyzes the relationship between nature, perception, and scientific description, laying groundwork for his later process philosophy.
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B.
Nature
Nature is an 1836 essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that laid the foundations of American Transcendentalism by exploring the spiritual and philosophical relationship between humans and the natural world.
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C.
Nature
Nature is a long-running PBS documentary television series that explores wildlife, natural habitats, and environmental issues around the world.
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D.
On Nature
On Nature is a lost philosophical treatise by the pre-Socratic thinker Anaxagoras that outlined his cosmology, including the role of Mind (Nous) in ordering the universe.
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E.
Ansichten der Natur
Ansichten der Natur is a collection of scientific and literary essays by Alexander von Humboldt that vividly portrays the interconnectedness of nature through detailed observations and reflections.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Experience and Nature Target entity description: Experience and Nature is a major philosophical work by John Dewey that articulates his naturalistic and pragmatist account of human experience and reality.
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A.
The Concept of Nature
The Concept of Nature is a 1920 philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that analyzes the relationship between nature, perception, and scientific description, laying groundwork for his later process philosophy.
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B.
Nature
Nature is an 1836 essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that laid the foundations of American Transcendentalism by exploring the spiritual and philosophical relationship between humans and the natural world.
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C.
Nature
Nature is a long-running PBS documentary television series that explores wildlife, natural habitats, and environmental issues around the world.
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D.
On Nature
On Nature is a lost philosophical treatise by the pre-Socratic thinker Anaxagoras that outlined his cosmology, including the role of Mind (Nous) in ordering the universe.
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E.
Ansichten der Natur
Ansichten der Natur is a collection of scientific and literary essays by Alexander von Humboldt that vividly portrays the interconnectedness of nature through detailed observations and reflections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| addresses |
relation between science and common sense
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role of art and imagination in experience ⓘ status of metaphysical concepts in a naturalistic framework ⓘ |
| aimsTo | reconstruct philosophy as a theory of experience within nature ⓘ |
| author | John Dewey ⓘ |
| centralClaim |
experience is an interaction between organism and environment
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human experience is continuous with natural processes ⓘ philosophy should be grounded in empirical inquiry ⓘ traditional dualisms between mind and nature are misleading abstractions ⓘ values and meanings arise within natural experience ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describes | continuity between scientific inquiry and everyday experience ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasEdition | 1929 revised edition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapter on experience, nature and art
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chapter on nature, life and body-mind ⓘ chapter on the live creature and the world of experience ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hilary Putnam
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Richard Rorty ⓘ contemporary pragmatism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Darwinian evolutionary theory ⓘ William James ⓘ empiricism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
epistemology
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metaphysics ⓘ naturalism ⓘ philosophy of experience ⓘ philosophy of nature ⓘ pragmatism ⓘ |
| movement | classical pragmatism ⓘ |
| opposes |
spectator theory of knowledge
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strict mind–body dualism ⓘ |
| philosophicalPerspective |
anti-foundationalism
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fallibilism ⓘ instrumentalism ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
American pragmatism
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linked to:
pragmatism
naturalistic pragmatism ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| publisher | Open Court Publishing Company ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Democracy and Education
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Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ⓘ The Quest for Certainty ⓘ
linked to:
Über Gewißheit
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Referenced by (8)
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subject linked to:
pragmatism
subject linked to:
"The Place of Habit in Conduct"
subject linked to:
"The Place of Impulse in Conduct"