ABSTRACT
Charles Peirce wrote that few people care to study logic. This still seems true today in the millennium after Peirce. Peirce explained that the reason for this lack of interest is that people already, if mistakenly, consider themselves proficient in logic. In practice the study of logic does not appear to be pragmatic. As inquiries and methods are better and worse, logic involves a standard for criticizing and evaluating them. This chapter presents the strengths of Dewey's approach. Dewey's account of logic as the theory of inquiry, like his entire philosophy, is anti-dualistic. Dewey clearly and steadfastly rejected any split or separation between logic and the actual methods of the currently most intelligent inquiries. The criticism of earlier philosophers is troubling-not because of what it says about other philosophers but because of what it does not say about Dewey's own philosophy and his understanding of logic, inquiry, and criticism.
