{"title":"Dewey and the Given","authors":"J. Garrison","doi":"10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.57.3.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an earlier paper, it was shown that John Dewey rejected what Wilfrid Sellars called \"the Myth of the Given\" (Garrison, 2019). The question remains: What, if anything, does Dewey think is given? The answer is as easily stated as it is difficult to understand: What is most primordially given is the noncognitive, unanalyzed, immediate qualitative experience of existence. All the rest is taken or made. Among things taken or made are such analytical distinctions as organism/environment, subject/object, knower/known, and such. Likewise, mediating signs including data for inferences, habits, linguistic meanings, and logical essences are also taken or made from immediately given qualitative experiences.","PeriodicalId":45325,"journal":{"name":"TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.57.3.04","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In an earlier paper, it was shown that John Dewey rejected what Wilfrid Sellars called "the Myth of the Given" (Garrison, 2019). The question remains: What, if anything, does Dewey think is given? The answer is as easily stated as it is difficult to understand: What is most primordially given is the noncognitive, unanalyzed, immediate qualitative experience of existence. All the rest is taken or made. Among things taken or made are such analytical distinctions as organism/environment, subject/object, knower/known, and such. Likewise, mediating signs including data for inferences, habits, linguistic meanings, and logical essences are also taken or made from immediately given qualitative experiences.
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Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society has been the premier peer-reviewed journal specializing in the history of American philosophy since its founding in 1965. Although named for the founder of American pragmatism, American philosophers of all schools and periods, from the colonial to the recent past, are extensively discussed. TCSPS regularly includes essays, and every significant book published in the field is discussed in a review essay. A subscription to the journal includes membership in the Charles S. Peirce Society, which was founded in 1946 by Frederic H. Young. The purpose of the Society is to encourage study of and communication about the work of Peirce and its ongoing influence in the many fields of intellectual endeavor to which he contributed.