in to philosophy itself in conjunction with
esthetics and religion. The reader will probably find that the
significant points of agreement have to do with the ideas of the
genuineness of the future, of intelligence as the organ for determining
the quality of that future so far as it can come within human control,
and of a courageously inventive individual as the bearer of a creatively
employed mind. While all the essays are new in the form in which they
are now published, various contributors make their acknowledgments to
the editors of the _Philosophical Review_, the _Psychological Review_,
and the _Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods_ for
use of material which first made its appearance in the pages of these
journals.
CONTENTS
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THE NEED FOR A RECOVERY OF PHILOSOPHY 3
John Dewey, Columbia University.
REFORMATION OF LOGIC 70
Addison W. Moore, University of Chicago.
INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS 118
Harold Chapman Brown, Leland Stanford, Jr., University.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND INDIVIDUAL THINKER 176
George H. Mead, University of Chicago.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND PSYCHOLOGY 228
Boyd H. Bode, University of Illinois.
THE PHASES OF THE ECONOMIC INTEREST 282
Henry Waldgrave Stuart, Leland Stanford, Jr., University.
THE MORAL LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF VALUES AND STANDARDS 354
James Hayden Tufts, University of Chicago.
VALUE AND EXISTENCE IN PHILOSOPHY, ART, AND RELIGION 409
Horace M. Kallen, University of Wisconsin.
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE
THE NEED FOR A RECOVERY OF PHILOSOPHY
JOHN DEWEY
Intellectual advance occurs in two ways. At times increase of knowledge
is organized about old conceptions, while these are expanded, elaborated
and refined, but not seriously revised, much less abandoned. At other
times, the increase of knowledge demands qualitative rather than
quantitative change; alteration, not addition. Men's minds grow cold to
their former intellectual concerns; ideas that were burning fade;
interests that were urgent seem remote. Men face in another direction;
their older perplexities are unreal; considerations passed over as
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