EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School ...

Synthese, Vol. 198, No. S1, Supplement 1: Special Issue on Radical Views on Cognition (January 2021), pp. S485-S506 (22 pages) It is well known that John Dewey was very far from embracing the ...

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America , by Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 546 pages, $27. There’s a new book out about mauve, the color. Recently there was a history of the mirror ...

The name of the thriller was Too Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published ...

It would take a mighty large bookcase to contain all of the works on pragmatism published over the last two decades. The brainchild of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and William James (1842-1910) ...

But a frank defense of pragmatism with a clear statement to the public of what it really implies is not usually included. The writings of Dewey himself and of his disciples (Kilpatrick, Rugg, Bode, ...