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CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Jan 17, 2025

Center for Dewey Studies Jan 16, 2025

This semester, the Dewey Studies Reading Group will be discussing John Dewey's 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. We will meet on Fridays at 1:00pm in the Center for Dewey Studies and online. Find out more, including how to join the group, at our website: https://deweycenter.siu.edu/

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The Dewey Center at SIU is the home of ongoing publishing, research, and outreach projects focused on the life and work of American philosopher and educator John Dewey.

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CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 28, 2024

Daniel Lakens Dec 27, 2024

Lovely article by @deevybee from 1990 (!) discussing Type 1 error inflation due to p-hacking (simulating a 40% Type 1 error rate based on realistic flexibility), bad measurement, bad theory, and proposing prespecifying tests and replications as solutions. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01688639008401022

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 17, 2024

Améthée Dec 17, 2024

En 2005 la ville de Boston a eu un concours du "bureau le moins bien rangé de la ville" et c'est le cosmologiste Alan Guth qui a gagné

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 16, 2024

New preprint from my PhD work in a single hypothesis: the cognitive bases of myside confirmation #bias run much deeper in evolutionary history than posited in the literature.

(Will do a 🧵 on it soon, a tad busy right now.)
#cognition #behavior @cognition @cogsci
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626648v1

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 16, 2024

Redish Lab Dec 16, 2024

#Hippocampus is publishing a series of #science retrospectives about the history and journeys that led us to where we are scientifically.

Mine just dropped.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23661

I'm deeply honored to have been asked to be a part of this. (They are releasing them as they get through production, so keep an eye on the journal for the rest of them. They had us read them to make connections and it's a fantastic set.)

#HistoryOfScience

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 16, 2024

New preprint from my PhD work in a single hypothesis: the cognitive bases of myside confirmation #bias run much deeper in evolutionary history than posited in the literature.

(Will do a 🧵 on it soon, a tad busy right now.)
#cognition #behavior @cognition @cogsci
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626648v1

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 16, 2024

Center for Dewey Studies Dec 13, 2024

Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy came out in Paperback last year. It is the text of an unfinished work by Dewey, meticulously edited by Phillip Deen.

The Poems of John Dewey is newly out in Paperback, with a new foreword by Dr. Matt Brown! The editorial introduction by Jo Ann Boydston is actually pretty thrilling (as such things go).

These two, the entire Collected Works, and many other works by and about Dewey are available from SIU Press for 30% off using the code in this post. Also worth checking out is their edition of Essays in Experimental Logic!

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 3, 2024

Center for Dewey Studies Dec 2, 2024

“There is something to be said for the assertion that the so-called democratic states of the world have achieved only "bourgeois" democracy. By "bourgeois" democracy is meant one in which power rests finally in the hands of finance capitalism, no matter what claims are made for government of, by and for all the people. In the perspective of history it is clear that the rise of democratic governments has been an accompaniment of the transfer of power from agrarian interests to industrial and commercial interests.” John Dewey, “Democracy is Radical” (1937 LW 11:296).

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Nov 25, 2024

Center for Dewey Studies Oct 21, 2024

“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who participate in an interest so that each has to refer his own action to that of others, and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity. These more numerous and more varied points of contact denote a greater diversity of stimuli to which an individual has to respond; they consequently put a premium on variation in his action. They secure a liberation of powers which remain suppressed as long as the incitations to action are partial, as they must be in a group which in its exclusiveness shuts out many interests.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916, MW 9: 93).

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Nov 25, 2024

Center for Dewey Studies Oct 23, 2024

“Contrast between peoples and races previously isolated is always, I think, most fruitful and influential for change when psychological and industrial changes coincide with and reinforce each other. Sometimes people undergo emotional change, what might almost be called a metaphysical change, through intercourse. The inner set of the mind, especially in religious matters, is altered. At other times, there is a lively exchange of goods, an adoption of foreign tools and devices, an imitation of alien habits of clothing, habitation and production of commodities. One of these changes is, so to speak, too internal and the other too external to bring about a profound intellectual development. But when the creation of a new mental attitude falls together with extensive material and economic changes, something significant happens.” John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12:101)