Dewey's Experience and Nature

David L. Hildebrand is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists (2003) and Dewey: A Beginner's Guide (2008). Nicola Ramazzotto is the editor of L'estetica pragmatista in dialogo (2022) and co-editor of Sense is this Wonderful Word. Hegel and the Aesthetic (2025). His research interests include aesthetics, pragmatism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the critique of metaphysics, on which he has published several articles in international journals and edited volumes.

• Introduction David L. Hildebrand and Nicola Ramazzotto; 1. The greatest philosophical story ever told Mark Johnson; 2. Experience between nature and culture Richard Shusterman; 3. Anti-reductionist continuity in experience and nature Rosa Calcaterra; 4. The method of experience Thomas M. Alexander; 5. Radical empiricism and Dewey's denotative method Jim Garrison; 6. Contingency, events, and the critique of metaphysics: existence as precarious and stable Nicola Ramazzotto; 7. How ends enhance life: from existence to experience Giovanni Matteucci; 8. Unresolved events: seeing process in the mirrors of grief Judith Jones; 9. The emergence of meanings Mathias Girel; 10. Self and sociality: experience and nature chapter 6 Antje Gimmler; 11. Opening up consciousness: experience, connections and time Pierre Steiner; 12. From a theory of experience to a philosophy of art: Dewey's aesthetics in experience and nature Roberta Dreon; 13. What gives Dewey's philosophy the right to be a 'criticism of criticisms?' David L. Hildebrand; Bibliography; Index.