John Dewey, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
Experience is continuous with nature, not separate from it. The dualisms that have structured Western philosophy since Descartes — mind versus body, subject versus object, theory versus practice, fact versus value, individual versus social, knower versus known, ends versus means, freedom versus necessity — are not real ontological gaps but distinctions WITHIN a continuous experiential field. Experience and Nature (1925) is the systematic articulation of this naturalist metaphysics; The Quest for Certainty (1929) is the diagnosis of the spectator-theory-of-knowledge pathology that produces the dualisms; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938) is the reconstruction of inquiry as the continuous process by which problematic situations are resolved through experimental intervention; Art as Experience (1934) extends the same naturalist treatment to aesthetic experience as the consummatory completion of ordinary experience, not a separate sphere.12345
The transactional analysis (vs interactional; vs the older self-action) is the formal name for the relational ontology this metaphysics requires.
These constitute what is generically termed criticism. A return is made to the theme of the first chapter by emphasizing the crucial significance of criticism in all phases of experience for its intelligent control. Philosophy, then, is a generalized theory of criticism.Experience and Nature, pp. 9–10
Its ultimate value for life-experience is that it continuously provides instruments for the criticism of those values—whether of beliefs, institutions, actions or products—that are found in all aspects of experience.Experience and Nature, pp. 10–11
When the text was written one of the features that distinguished it was its use of "experience"; "experience" was asserted to be of the natural world in the most pregnant sense; it was employed to stand for every actual and every possible way in which man, himself a part of nature, has dealings with all other aspects and phases of nature, including man's delusions, errors and daydreams, as well as his useful and…Experience and Nature, pp. 331–332
Ultimately there are but two philosophies. One of them accepts life and experience in all its uncertainty, mystery, doubt, and half-knowledge and turns that experience upon itself to deepen and intensify its own qualities—to imagination and art. This is the philosophy of Shakespeare and Keats.3.The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953. Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience, pp. 42–43
Without the former, man will be the sport and victim of natural forces.... Without the latter, mankind might become a race of economic monsters... bored with leisure or capable of putting it to use only in ostentatious display and extravagant dissipation." Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), p. 127 [ The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, ed.The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953. Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience
Genuinely held and the foundation of everything else I wrote. The metaphysics is technical, the prose is sometimes opaque, and I will acknowledge that critics — Rorty most notably — have grounds for finding Experience and Nature harder to follow than Reconstruction in Philosophy. But the difficulty of the prose is not evidence that the project is misconceived; the project is the metaphysical foundation that the political and educational philosophy require. Without the naturalist reconstruction of experience, democracy as a way of life loses its anchoring in what kind of beings we are and what kinds of association produce growth.