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...
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Dewey, John
Born in Burlington, Vermont, on October 20, John Dewey (1859–1952) lived a long and productive life as a psychologist, social activist, public intellectual, educator, and philosophe...
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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...
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Dewey, John [addendum]
John Dewey has undergone an extraordinary renaissance of scholarly and public concern with his thought. Dewey (1859–1952) was encyclopedic in both his interests and achie...
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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...
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During the ninety-three years of John Dewey's long life, the United States experienced the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, industrialization, mass immigration, the emer...
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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...
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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...
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In the following essay, Johnstone finds similarities between the interrelation of ethics and rhetoric in the writings of Aristotle and Dewey.
Rhetoric and wisdom are often linked in discussions of the...
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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...
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In the following essay, Hendley presents a history of Dewey's Laboratory School, and focuses on Dewey's philosophical and educational goals for the school.
I went to the Dewey School on...
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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...
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In the following review of Robert B. Westbrook's John Dewey and American Democracy, Menand gives an overview of Dewey's life and work, and touches briefly on the influence Jane Addams an...
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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 ...
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In the following excerpt, Ryan examines Dewey's views on personal experience, concluding that he never was able to reconcile his seemingly contradictory views.
This essay will examine and attem...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Wilson examines the differences and similarities between the naturalism espoused by Dewey and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Today many find themselves to be alienated from a religion ...
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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...
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In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, Otto focuses on the sociological aspects of the work, which Otto expresses as the need for education to reflect common experiences.
T...
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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...
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In the following essay, Sullivan finds similarities between Dewey's esthetics and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
The mere combination of the names of John Dewey and Friedrich Nietzsche in...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Ratner examines Dewey 's personal definition and objectives for his philosophy, concluding that Dewey believed philosophy to be an integral element of all human life.
I...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Pepper examines Dewey's writings on esthetics, which he finds are often contrary to Dewey's purported allegiance to Pragmatist tenets.
A personal item may more...
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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...
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In the following essay, Schneider presents an overview of Dewey's writings on the various aspects of human psychology.
During his years as a student under George Sylvester Morris, from 1882 to ...
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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...
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This paper describes the life and impact of John Dewey. It will also help address a question that has prompted public discussion for the last 100 years: Is the traditional method of education brok...
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Dewey, John (1859-1942)
Dewey, John
Dewey, John (1859–1952)
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