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j. e. tiles 5 The primacy of practice in Deweys experimental empiricism nature and experience Dewey explained that the title of the book setting out his mature philosophy, Experi ence and Nature , was intended to signify to read- ers that what he was offering could be thought of either as empirical naturalism or naturalistic empiricism. He anticipated that many would greet either of these as an oxymoron like talking of a round squarebecause their conception of nature was of some- thin g who lly mat eria l and mec hanist ic,which had no place for experience except as something extraneous, which is occasionally superimposed on nature. 1 Among existing philosophies that pro- fessed to base their concepts and doctrines on experience and could claim to be ve rs ions of  empiricism,no ne concei ve d ex peri ence as a natural phenomenon like rain, retro-viruses or retrograde motion of the planets. But even now, after the concept of a naturalized epis- temologyhas become commonplace, the concept of experience on which Dewey hoped to base his naturalized empiricism is not widely apprec iated, let alone accepted. Locating experien ce as in and a part of nature was only a relatively modest part of the radical reform Dewey was proposing. The entr y fo r empiricismin a recen tl y publ is hed encycl ope di a of  phil osophy of fers a us efu l point of de part ur e. Empi ricism wheth er it appears as a doctrine of epi stemol ogy or a theory of meaning stresses the fundamental role of experience . . . It is [however] dif - cult to give an illuminating analysis of experience. Let us say that it includes any mode of consciousness in which something seems to be presented to the subject, as contrasted with the mental activity of thi nki ng about thi ngs .2 This ac count is an at te mpt to be ec umenic al 101

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