The Collected Works of John Dewey: 1925 1927, Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems v. 2: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927 v. 2 (Later Works of John Dewey: 1925-1953) - Softcover

Dewey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809328127 ISBN 13: 9780809328123

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2009

Synopsis

This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and two items from Intelligence in the Modern World. Freedom and Culture presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their advance.

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John Dewey (1859 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy ofpragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of progressive education and liberalism. In 1894 Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago(1894 1904) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy. His time at the University of Chicago resulted in four essays collectively entitled Thought and its Subject-Matter, which was published with collected works from his colleagues at Chicago under the collective title Studies in Logical Theory(1903). During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress(1899).In 1899, Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association. From 1904 until his retirement in 1930 he was professor of philosophy at both Columbia University and Columbia University's Teachers College. In 1905 he became president of the American Philosophical Association. He was a longtime member of the American Federation of Teachers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809328127
• ISBN 13: 9780809328123
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 494
• Editor: Boydston Jo Ann