Dewey and Russell - a debate about learning
My first venture into my own defining of this topic had to do finding a title for this blog which led to exploring the positions or 2 writers who were known to me, and my practice, but whose thoughts I wanted to compare. Even looking at the words 'practice knowledge' or 'practical knowledge' or 'scientific truth' leads to several pathways of thought and a history of debate from the past that is not easily unthreaded. I have read both but was not aware of the debates and think they could be a place to start exploring this area of practice so important now in university approaches to professional practice. A number of Dewey's books are available on the Project Gutenburg, I looked at Experimental Logic. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/446 Bertrand Russell wrote many books over a wide area https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/ I first read Religion and Science, but also am now looking at other writing such as The Problems of Philosophy ht...