Assaying the Relation of Ins trumentalis t Epis temology of John Dewey and Hermeneutical Approach

The aim of the current essay is to s tudy the similarity between the epis temology of John Dewey and hermeneutical approach in philosophy. The author has sought to show that despite difference in intellectual origins of Dewey and such hermeneuticis ts as Dilthey one can find considerable overlaps between the epis temological 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 empiricis t’s notion of experience – to found his epis temology 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 the unders tanding of these two approaches of the concept of experience has numerous similarities and how these similarities close their philosophical s tances to each other insofar as one can s tate that Dewey’s ins trumentalis t epis temology is indeed hermeneutical in its essence.