John Dewey's Radical Logic: The Function of the Qualitative in Thinking.

In his later works, John Dewey questioned some of the traditional assumptions about the nature and function of the qualitative in inquiry. Dewey foresaw what recent scientific accounts of human thinking are confirming: it is more complex, less linear, more emotional, affective, bodily-based, non-ref...

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Published in:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 435 - 469
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Published: Indiana University Press Summer2016
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