John Dewey Summary

Dewey, John (1859-1942) A native of Burlington, Vermont, John Dewey received his B.A. from the University of Vermont in 1879 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1884. Except for a brief app... Read more

Dewey, John(1859–1952) The American philosopher, educator, and social critic John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont. A shy youth, he enjoyed reading books and was a good but not a brilliant... Read more

During the first half of the 20th century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was America's most famous exponent of a pragmatic philosophy that celebrated the traditional values of democracy and the efficacy of r... Read more

During his long life John Dewey contributed in profound and original ways to every field of academic philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and logic. Outside... Read more

In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, King attempts to elucidate Dewey's theories in order to support his thesis that the work is a worthwhile study of sociology, e... Read more

In the following excerpt, Buxton examines the movement of Dewey's thought from idealism to pragmatism, and identifies William James as a singular influence on the evolution of Dewey's be... Read more

In the following essay, Rockefeller—writing from the perspective of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the student revolts in China—enumerates s... Read more

In the following essay, Taylor discusses the contradictory nature of Dewey's attitude toward his birth-state Vermont. John Dewey was always somewhat ambivalent about his Vermont background. At ... Read more

In the following essay, Feezell humorously examines competitive collegiate sports in light of Dewey's Art as Experience. From Paul Weiss's relatively early and legitimating reflections i... Read more

In the following article, White recounts Dewey's response to White's book Social Thought in America, and White's answer to Dewey's charges. Shortly after his ninetieth birt... Read more

In the following essay, Spitzer examines Dewey's role as commissioner of the committee to defend Leon Trotsky, its eventual finding that Trotsky was not guilty of the Moscow purges or of corrob... Read more

In the following review of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Werkmeister declares Dewey's work as a philosophical landmark. The publication of [Logic: The Theory of Inquiry] is most ... Read more

In the following essay, Murphy declares that Dewey's philosophical methods are unsound because they do not adopt scientific or practical methodology. In harmony with Spinoza's observatio... Read more

In the following review of Dewey's Freedom and Culture, Merriam concludes that Dewey has a firm grasp on the theories of political science. [Freedom and Culture] by the Nestor of American philo... Read more

In the following essay, Brickman—a professor of Educational History and Comparative Education—defends his conclusion that Dewey's commentaries on politics and society form a cohes... Read more