Dewey’s philosophy of experience is largely based on the insightful analysis of the biggest problems within Western thought, as well as the consistent attempts to renew our conception of the nature of the experience of all living beings – especially humans. Dewey’s interpretations of the history of philosophy constitute an integral part of his own philosophy of experience, and through them he traces the starting points and presuppositions of the prevailing conception of experience. Dewey presents his own philosophy as a criticism of predominant ideas of experience with a view to exposing how deeply certain philosophical conceptions are engrained in our thinking and our practical lives. Thus, the focus of his interpretations is not on the philosophical speculations that hover above people’s daily lives, but on the theories by which they construct their conceptions of both themselves as experiencing beings and of the world as the object of experience.
Dewey’s views on the history of philosophy should not be understood as scholarly research into the history of philosophy or the history of ideas. Nor did he attempt to reveal what philosophers aimed to achieve in their pa
