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work_ii4co5z435d4nanr6ea3uax364	Alan W. Richardson	Engineering Philosophy of Science: American Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism in the 1930s	2002	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5311	342	52	Engineering Philosophy of Science: American Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism in the 1930s Engineering Philosophy of Science: American Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism in the 1930s question: Did the American philosophers turn away from Dewey and toward logical empiricism? revolutionary project that brought into philosophy an experimental, scientific habit of mind and freed it from "vain metaphysics and idle epistemology" (Dewey [1920] 1948, 124). Revolutionary rhetoric of a scientific philosophy overcoming metaphysics and epistemology on the road to more pressing problems was not For Dewey scientific philosophy finds new tasks, while for Cohen it finds Dewey's scientific philosophy is practical and is motivated by the technological triumphs of science: Dewey's stress is ever on the practical problems of life, now to be attacked by a scientific philosophy imbued with a spirit of engineering. revolutionary nature of scientific philosophy and its social engineering scientific philosophy was a common preoccupation of Dewey's pragmatism and the logical empiricism.	./cache/work_ii4co5z435d4nanr6ea3uax364.pdf	./txt/work_ii4co5z435d4nanr6ea3uax364.txt