John Dewey’s Pragmatism and Moral Education
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Abstract
Dewey’s views on education follow from his version of pragmatism. In this essay I shall argue that Dewey’s pragmatism did not allow him to develop a coherent theory of moral education. Dewey’s rhetoric suggests that his position on moral education can be associated with virtue ethics, yet, although he used conspicuously “moral” terms such as “virtues” and “habits” throughout his writings, this did not amount to a workable theory of moral education. For Dewey, virtue amounted to the cultivation of correct habits, which he deemed to be of primary concern to education. His views on habits (and consequently on virtues), however, are inconsistent. I shall show that the discrepancies in Dewey’s views on “virtues” are not due to a mere sloppiness in writing but rather due to Dewey’s pragmatism.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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