The Department of Philosophy at the college of Arts at the University of Basrah organized a panel discussion entitled (The Instrumental Approach in John Dewey Philosophy).

The panel discussion , in which Assist. Prof.Nibras Zaki Jalil lectured, aims to present the method that Dewey used in his philosophy to show the importance of this method, the steps he used in it, and his rejection of the distinction between logic and the research method, as he made logic a theory of research.

The panel discussion dealt with the subject of the curriculum in three main axes.The first axis included experience, the second axis dealt with research steps, and the third axis touched on the theory of truth or honesty. These axes cannot be separated from each other because each of them complements the other.

The panel discussion touched on the subject of experience, which was known in all of Dewey's philosophy, to the extent that he was described as the philosopher of experience, where he emphasized the interaction between thinking and the natural world and that thinking is part of nature and its ongoing and continuous process then the subject of systematic research in which man uses all aspects of his intellectual activities from conception, inference and judgment, through which man moves from one experience to another, and finally the subject of truth or honesty that results from the results of this research and judgment on these results as being real or unreal and not truthful.