book
The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of
Dewey, John. The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action. New York: Minton, Balch, 1929.
Why this matters here
In The Quest for Certainty, Dewey criticizes the philosophical drive to secure knowledge apart from risky action, and argues for experimental intelligence open to revision. After Certainty uses that critique to separate truth pursued through revision from correctness treated as an identity people possess. The book’s question is what changes when the goal stops being to arrive at final rightness and starts being to remain revisable.
