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Hegel, Dewey, and Habits (2015)

British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Volume: 23
Issue: 4
Pages: 632-656
Publication date: 2015
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1031634

DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2015.1031634

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Social construction; constructivism Idealism (philosophy) Pragmatism; instrumentalism 18th century 20th century, early 19th century Dewey, John Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

In this paper, I argue against Terry Pinkard's account of the relation between Deweyian pragmatism and Hegelian idealism. Instead of thinking that their affinity concerns the issue of normative authority, as Pinkard does, I argue that we should trace their affinity to Dewey's appropriation of Hegel's naturalism, especially his theory of habits. Pinkard is not in a position to appreciate this affinity because (1) he misreads Dewey as an instrumentalist, and (2) his social-constructivist account of Hegel – which he shares with Pippin and Brandom, is not able to correctly take the measure of Hegel's naturalism. On my reading, Dewey's philosophy is concerned above all with understanding and making objective the proper relation between reason and habit, with our achieving an equipoise in which thought is informed by intelligent habits and where habits are instituted by past thought and inquiry. In achieving this equipoise, one's bodily nature becomes a form in which subjects can realize their freedom. I claim that the origin of this thought can be found in Hegel, and that Dewey, when seen through this lens, is a type of left-Hegelian naturalist.

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