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Arthur F. Bentley

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Bentley held that interactions of groups are the basis of political life, and rejected statist abstractions. In his opinion, group activity determined legislation, administration and adjudication. These ideas of process-based behavioralism later became central to political science. His tenet that
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who also tried to develop objective, value-free analyses of the political field. This influence is still felt decades on (1983 : Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, Mémoire "Décision Groupale et Réalité Démocratique dans The Process of Government", P.
347: 269: 90:, where he lived for the rest of his life. The son of a successful banker, Bentley was able to finance his life as a scholar without having to work for an income. He was the second person to win the 126:, first published in 1908 and still in print today, had much influence on political science from the 1930s to the 1950s. "The Human Skin: Philosophy's Last Line of Defense" was published in 308: 74:
He taught at the University of Chicago for one year (1895-1896) and then decided to become a reporter. Later, he transitioned into editorial work at two Chicago papers, the
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The son of Charles Frederick Bentley (1843–1908), and Angeline Alice Bentley (1845–1911), née Dreisbach, Arthur Fisher Bentley was born at in
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Bentley's papers, including his correspondence with Dewey, are kept in archives at Indiana University.
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The Condition of the Western Farmer as Illustrated by the Economic History of a Nebraska Township
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The Condition of the Western Farmer as Illustrated by the Economic History of a Nebraska Township
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and who contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science.
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Ratner The Journal of Philosophy, Sidney (1958). "Arthur F. Bentley, 1870-1957".
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Dewey, J. & Bentley, A.F. (1945b), "A Terminology for Knowings and Knowns",
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Although initially not of consequence, it influenced other groups such as the
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Bentley, A.F. (1941), "The Human Skin: Philosophy's Last Line of Defense",
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He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1892 and his Ph.D. in 1895 from
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Dewey, J. & Bentley, A.F. (1945a), "A Search for Firm Names",
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on 16 October 1870. He married Anna Harrison (1868-1924) in 1899.
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Bentley, A.F. (1945b), "On a Certain Vagueness in Logic: II",
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Bentley, A.F. (1946), "Logicians' Underlying Postulations", '
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This biography of an American political scientist is a
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Dewey, J. & Bentley, A.F. (1946), "Specification",
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Dewey, J. & Bentley, A.F. (1945c), "Postulations",
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The Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures
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The Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures
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political scientist
philosopher
epistemology
logic
linguistics
Freeport, Illinois
Johns Hopkins University
Times-Herald
Record-Herald
Paoli, Indiana
American Humanist Association
Humanist of the Year Award
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pluralist
Knowing and the Known
epistemology
John Dewey


"Arthur F. Bentley | American political scientist"
"Pressure Group Theory: Its Methodological Range"
doi
10.2307/1952645
ISSN
0003-0554
"The Cosmology of Arthur F. Bentley"
doi
10.2307/1952646
ISSN
0003-0554

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