Naturalism in the Philosophies of Dewey and Zhuangzi: The Live Creature and the Crooked Tree

This dissertation will compare the concept of nature as it appears in the philosophies of the American pragmatist John Dewey and the Chinese daoist Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) and will defend two central claims. The first of these is that Dewey and Zhuangzi share a view of nature that is non-reductive, ph...

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Main Author: Kirby, Christopher C
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2008
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/337
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1336&context=etd