تبیین نسبت معرفت شناسی ابزارانگارانه ی جان دیویی و رهیافت هرمنوتیکی

The aim of the current essay is studying the similarity between the epistemology of John Dewey and hermeneutical approach in philosophy. The author has sought to show that despite difference in intellectual origins of Dewey and such hermeneuticists as Dilthey one can find considerable overlaps between the epistemological approach of Dewey and the hermeneutical approach and discern that they are basically of the same philosophical orientation. What is of a key role in the emergence of this interrelation is the concept of "experience". On the one hand, Dewey seeks via formation of a specific notion of experience – that as we see is different from empiricist's notion of experience – to found his epistemology without the mediation of any metaphysical and transcendental idea. On the other hand, in hermeneutics of Wilhelm Dilthey the notion of "lived experience" is of central place. This comparison reveals that understanding these two approaches to the concept of experience are of numerous similarities and how these similarities close their philosophical stances to each other insofar as one can state that Dewey's instrumentalist epistemology is indeed hermeneutical in its essence.