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  2. John Dewey - Wikipedia

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    John Dewey (/ ˈ d uː i /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

  3. Francis Wayland Parker - Wikipedia

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    Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral. John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education

  4. Progressivism - Wikipedia

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    Progressivism is a left-leaning political philosophy and reform movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology. [1]

  5. Charles Sanders Peirce - Wikipedia

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    His writings bear on a wide array of disciplines, including mathematics, logic, philosophy, statistics, astronomy, [28] metrology, [3] geodesy, experimental psychology, [4] economics, [5] linguistics, [6] and the history and philosophy of science. This work has enjoyed renewed interest and approval, a revival inspired not only by his ...

  6. Progress - Wikipedia

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    Among environmentalists, there is a continuum between two opposing poles. The one pole is optimistic, progressive, and business-oriented, and endorses the classic idea of progress. For example, bright green environmentalism endorses the idea that new designs, social innovations and green technologies can solve critical environmental challenges.

  7. Economic progressivism - Wikipedia

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    Economic progressivism or fiscal progressivism is a political and economic philosophy incorporating the socioeconomic principles of social democrats and political progressives. These views are often rooted in the concept of social justice and have the goal of improving the human condition through government regulation , social protections and ...

  8. Psychologism - Wikipedia

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    John Stuart Mill was accused by Edmund Husserl of being an advocate of a type of logical psychologism, although this may not have been the case. [6] So were many nineteenth-century German philosophers such as Christoph von Sigwart, Benno Erdmann, Theodor Lipps, Gerardus Heymans, Wilhelm Jerusalem, and Theodor Elsenhans, [7] as well as a number of psychologists, past and present (e.g., Wilhelm ...

  9. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    For example, in France it became associated with anti-government and anti-Church radicalism, while in Germany it reached deep into the middle classes, where it expressed a spiritualistic and nationalistic tone without threatening governments or established churches. [97] Government responses varied widely.