Democracy and values in education. On the epistemological status of experience in pragmatism

The importance of experience in education in the postulates of pragmatism pedagogy is widely known. John Dewey has extensively elaborated on the problem. The purpose of the article is to answer the question about the limits to the use of experience in the process of education. The answer to the question lies in the epistemological question of the relationship between experience and theory. The first section refers to the most important issues relating to the concepts of experience, democracy and values in education. The second section describes the role of experience in pragmatism in the context of behaviorism, social behaviorism in particular. The third section outlines epistemological discussions on the status of experience in knowledge creation. The last section attempts to answer the primary question about the limits to the possible use of experience in the process of education.

EFEKTIFITAS PERATURAN KAMPUNG BEBAS ASAP ROKOK DI RW 11 MENDUNGAN, GIWANGAN, UMBULHARJO, YOGYAKARTA

The formation of free-tobacco village has aimed to control smoking behavior among the village members. The title of free-tobacco village does not necessarily mean prohibit all village members to smoke, instead it limits them in terms of time and place to smoke. The main goal of this rule is to avoid the danger of tobacco for those who are not smoking. This is more related to the right of anyone to have a fresh air without any smoke pollution. The main issue of this article is to examine the effectiveness of the rule with considering on how that rule is being form and implemented in RW 11, Mendungan Village. This article employs social behaviorism theory in examining the behavior of smokers in the village. Social behaviorism theory emphasis on individual factor and its interactions toward others. This interaction process becomes distinctive character compare to psychological behaviorism. To collect data, researcher uses observations, interviews, and documentations. Collected data, then, is being analyzed using descriptive qualitative approach. Results show that free-tobacco village is formed mainly to preserve the health of villagers and to protect those who are not consume tobacco from the danger of smoking. Intensive socialization through placing non-smoking areas in most all public facilities and giving social punishments, particularly in a form of warning are effective enough to control total consumption of tobacco in the village. After the socialization period is over, those who broke the rule will be fied. Collected fies will be used to support social activities of the villagers

Formal truth and objective reference in an inferentialist setting

The project of developing a pragmatic theory of meaning aims at an anti-metaphysical, therefore anti-repre­sen­ta­tio­nalist and anti-subjectivist, analysis of truth and reference. In order to understand this project we have to remember the turns or twists given to Frege’s and Witt­genstein’s original idea of inferential semantics (with Kant and Hegel as predecessors) in later developments like formal axiomatic theo­ries (Hilbert, Tarski, Carnap), regularist behaviorism (Quine), mental regulism and interpretationism (Chomsky, Davidson), social behaviorism (Sellars, Millikan), intentionalism (Grice), con­ventionalism (D. Lewis), justificational theories (Dummett, Lorenzen) and, finally, Brandom’s normative pragmatics.