Experience and Nature, and Democracy and Education.
This philosopher distinguished between "Qualitative thought" and "Affective Thought" in Philosophy and Civilization, and Sydney Hook was known as this thinker's "bulldog." He suggested that works of art actually hinder our ability to understand aesthetics in Art as Experience, and attacked the prevailing stimulus-response theory on the grounds that it creates a false metaphysical and epistemological distinction between sensory stimulation and motor response in "The Reflex-Arc Concept in Psychology." Richard Rorty sought to integrate this philosopher's thinking with Hegel and Darwin in the Consequences of Pragmatism. For 10 points, name this American philosopher, the author of ? Experience and Nature, and Democracy and Education.
This philosopher distinguished between "Qualitative thought" and "Affective Thought" in Philosophy and Civilization, and Sydney Hook was known as this thinker's "bulldog."
John {Dewey}