Dewey and Tao Xingzhi’s Educational Philosophy and Contemporary Interpretation

An interpretation of philosophy and aesthetics for contemporary music education

Somaesthetics and Democracy: Dewey and Contemporary Body Art

Perhaps no twentieth-century philosopher was as favorably inclined towards the role of aesthetic experience in building a democratic culture as was John Dewey, the preeminent public intellectual in America during the first half of the twentieth century. His vision of democracy necessitated a robust commitment not only to an open-ended process of unimpeded free inquiry, which emulated that of th...

Reconstructing Dewey: The Philosophy of Critical Pragmatism

The historical relationship between pragmatism and critical theory is one in which the antifoundational and practice-oriented dimensions of pragmatism appear to exist in tension, if not outright conflict, with the emancipatory commitments of the neo-Marxist legacy of critical theory. While Deweyan pragmatism is most often understood in its deliberative, experimental, open-ended, and contextual ...

Osteopathic Principles and Philosophy: a Contemporary View

Osteopathic medicine as we know it begins with Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. (1828 1917), who introduced its concepts in 1874. Still’s basic idea --that the human body was much like a machine, one that would function well if all its parts were in proper mechanical relationship --was unique compared to the medical thinking of the time. Doctor Still was a frontier doctor, and had trained like most ph...

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought