The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 5, 1899-1924 Volume 5: Ethics, 1908: 005 (Collected Works of John Dewey) - Softcover

Dewey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809311399 ISBN 13: 9780809311392

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Synopsis

This fifth volume of the Middle Works contains Ethics by John Dewey and his former colleague at the University of Michigan, James H. Tufts, which ap­peared as one of the last in the Holt American Science series of textbooks. Within some six months after publica­tion, Ethics was adopted as a textbook by thirty colleges. The book continued to be extremely popular and widely used, and was reprinted twenty-five times before both authors completely revised their respective parts for the new 1932 edition.

Up to the time Ethics was published, Dewey’s approach to ethics was known primarily from two short publications that were developed for use by his classes at the University of Michigan: Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics (1891) and The Study of Ethics: A Syl­labus (1894). Charles Stevenson notes in his Introduction to the present edition that Ethics afforded Dewey an opportu­nity to preserve and enrich the content of those earlier works and at the same time to expound his position in a more systematic manner.

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About the Author

Charles Stevenson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Among his best-known works are Facts and Values and Ethics and Language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809311399
• ISBN 13: 9780809311392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Boydston Jo Ann