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John Dewey : biography

October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952

John Dewey ( FAA October 20, 1859 – June 1, 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 of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of progressive education and liberalism.Alan Ryan, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, (1995) p 32

Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics.

In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt.

Publications

Besides publishing prolifically himself, Dewey also sat on the boards of scientific publications such as Sociometry (advisory board, 1942) and Journal of Social Psychology (editorial board, 1942), as well as having posts at other publications such as New Leader (contributing editor, 1949).

The following publications by John Dewey are referenced or mentioned in this article. A more complete list of his publications may be found at List of publications by John Dewey.

  • "" Andover Review, 2, 278-289 (1884)
  • Psychology (1887)
  • Leibniz’s New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding (1888)
  • "" Philosophical Review, 3,337-341. (1894)
  • (1896)
  • "My Pedagogic Creed" (1897)
  • The School and Society (1900)
  • (1902)
  • (1905)
  • Moral Principles in Education (1909) The Riverside Press Cambridge
  • How We Think (1910)
  • (1915)
  • Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education (1916)
  • (1919)
  • Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology
  • (1925)
  • The Public and its Problems (1927)
  • Gifford Lectures (1929)
  • The Sources of a Science of Education (1929) The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series
  • Individualism Old and New (1930)
  • Philosophy and Civilization (1931)
  • Ethics, second edition (with James Hayden Tufts) (1932)
  • Art as Experience (1934)
  • A Common Faith (1934)
  • Liberalism and Social Action (1935)
  • Experience and Education (1938)
  • Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938)
  • Freedom and Culture (1939)
  • Theory of Valuation (1939). ISBN 0-226-57594-2
  • Knowing and the Known (1949)

See also

  • The Essential Dewey: Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by Larry Hickman and Thomas Alexander (1998). Indiana University Press
  • The Philosophy of John Dewey Edited by John J. McDermott (1981). University of Chicago Press

Dewey’s Complete Writings is available in 3 multi-volume sets (37 volumes in all) from

  • The Early Works: 1892-1898 (5 volumes)
  • The Middle Works: 1899-1924 (15 volumes)
  • The Later Works: 1925-1953 (17 volumes)
  • Posthumous Works: 1956-2009

, , and are available online via monographic purchase to academic institutions and via subscription to individuals, and also in TEI format for university servers. (The CD-ROM has been discontinued).

Works about Dewey

  • Alexander, Thomas. John Dewey’s Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature (1987) SUNY Press
  • Bernstein, Richard J. John Dewey (1966) Washington Square Press.
  • Boisvert, Raymond. John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time. (1997) SUNY Press
  • Campbell, James. (1995) Open Court Publishing Company
  • Caspary, William R. (2000). Cornell University Press.
  • Crick, Nathan. (2010) University of South Carolina Press.
  • Fishman, Stephen M. and Lucille McCarthy. (2007). University of Illinois Press.
  • Garrison, Jim. Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2010. Original published 1997 by Teachers College Press.
  • Hickman, Larry A. John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology. (1992) Indiana University Press.
  • Hook, S. John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait (1939)
  • Kannegiesser, H. J. "Knowledge and Science" (1977) The Macmillan Company of Australia PTY Ltd
  • Martin, Jay. The Education of John Dewey. (2003) Columbia University Press
  • Morse, Donald J. Faith in Life: John Dewey’s Early Philosophy. (2011) Fordham University Press
  • Pappas, Gregory. John Dewey’s Ethics: Democracy as Experience. (2008) Indiana University Press.
  • Popkewitz, Thomas S. (ed). Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey: Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education. (2005) New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Putnam, Hilary. "Dewey’s Logic: Epistemology as Hypothesis". In Words and Life, ed. James Conant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
  • Rockefeller, Stephen. John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism. (1994) Columbia University Press
  • Rogers, Melvin. The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy (2008). Columbia University Press.
  • Roth, Robert J. John Dewey and Self-Realization. (1962). Prentice Hall
  • Rorty, Richard. "Dewey’s Metaphysics". In The Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
  • Rud, A. G., Garrison, Jim, and Stone, Lynda (eds.) John Dewey at 150: Reflections for a New Century. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • Ryan, Alan. John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism. (1995) W.W. Norton.
  • Seigfried, Charlene Haddock, (ed.). Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey (2001) Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Shook, John. Dewey’s Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality. (2000) The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
  • Sleeper, R.W. The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy. Introduction by Tom Burke. (2001) University of Illinois Press.
  • Talisse, Robert B. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (2007) Routledge
  • Westbrook, Robert B. John Dewey and American Democracy. (1991) Cornell University Press. , the standard scholarly biography
  • White, Morton. The Origin of Dewey’s Instrumentalism. (1943). Columbia University Press.