He wrote about the imagination in Art and Experience, and although he was a philosopher by trade his argument for the importance of "the reflex arc" precipitated behaviorist psychology. Rejecting the 
He wrote about the imagination in Art and Experience, and although he was a philosopher by trade his argument for the importance of "the reflex arc" precipitated behaviorist psychology. Rejecting the idea of an absolute mind he argued that nature encountered in ordinary experience the ultimate reality. This instrumentalist view of knowledge, as he called it can be seen in works like Studies in Logical Theory, and even his later work on schooling like The Child and Curriculum and The School and Society. FTP, name this man often classed with the pragmatists who first suggested education was a process of acculturation.
He wrote about the imagination in Art and Experience, and although he was a philosopher by trade his argument for the importance of "the reflex arc" precipitated behaviorist psychology.
John Dewey