The Essential Dewey, Volume 1

• ISBN13: 9780253333902
• ISBN10: 0253333903
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-08-22
• Publisher: Indiana University Press

Summary

In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was an educational innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of AmericaÕs last great public intellectuals. DeweyÕs insights into the problems of public education, immigration, the prospects for democratic government, and the relation of religious faith to science are as fresh today as when they were first published. His penetrating treatments of the nature and function of philosophy, the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of life, and the role of inquiry in human experience are of increasing relevance at the turn of the 21st century. Based on the award-winning 37-volume critical edition of DeweyÕs work, The Essential Dewey presents for the first time a collection of DeweyÕs writings that is both manageable and comprehensive. The volume includes essays and book chapters that exhibit DeweyÕs intellectual development over time; the selection represents his mature thinking on every major issue to which he turned his attention. Eleven part divisions cover: Dewey in Context; Reconstructing Philosophy; Evolutionary Naturalism; Pragmatic Metaphysics; Habit, Conduct, and Language; Meaning, Truth, and Inquiry; Valuation and Ethics; The Aims of Education; The Individual, the Community, and Democracy; Pragmatism and Culture: Science and Technology, Art and Religion; and Interpretations and Critiques. Taken as a whole, this collection provides unique access to DeweyÕs understanding of the problems and prospects of human existence and of the philosophical enterprise.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	vii	(2)
INTRODUCTION	ix	(6)
LARRY A. HICKMAN
THOMAS M. ALEXANDER
CHRONOLOGY	xv
PART I: DEWEY IN CONTEXT	1	(36)
The Development of American Pragmatism (1925)	3	(11)
From Absolutism to Experimentalism (1930)	14	(8)
What I Believe (1930)	22	(7)
Pragmatic America (1922)	29	(4)
The Pragmatic Acquiescence (1927)	33	(4)
PART 2: RECONSTRUCTING PHILOSOPHY	37	(76)
The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy (1909)	39	(7)
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy (1917)	46	(25)
Philosophy and Democracy (1919)	71	(8)
Philosophy and Civilization (1927)	79	(5)
Existence, Value and Criticism FROM EXPERIENCE AND NATURE (1925)	84	(18)
Philosophy's Search for the Immutable FROM THE QUEST FOR CERTAINTY (1929)	102	(11)
PART 3: EVOLUTIONARY NATURALISM	113	(60)
The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism (1905)	115	(6)
Pure Experience and Reality: A Disclaimer (1907)	121	(3)
Does Reality Possess Practical Character? (1908)	124	(10)
Nature, Life and Body-Mind FROM EXPERIENCE AND NATURE (1925)	134	(20)
Nature in Experience (1940)	154	(8)
Anti-Naturalism in Extremis (1943)	162	(11)
PART 4: PRAGMATIC METAPHYSICS	173	(54)
The Subject-Matter of Metaphysical Inquiry (1915)	175	(6)
Events and the Future (1926)	181	(4)
Appearing and Appearance (1927)	185	(10)
Qualitative Thought (1930)	195	(11)
Context and Thought (1931)	206	(11)
Time and Individuality (1940)	217	(10)
PART 5: THE AIMS OF EDUCATION	227	(52)
My Pedagogic Creed (1897)	229	(7)
The Child and the Curriculum (1902)	236	(10)
The Moral Training Given by the School Community FROM MORAL PRINCIPLES IN EDUCATION (1909)	246	(4)
Aims in Education FROM DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION (1916)	250	(7)
Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims FROM DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION (1916)	257	(8)
Nationalizing Education (1916)	265	(5)
Education as Engineering (1922)	270	(4)
Education in Relation to Form FROM HOW WE THINK (1933)	274	(5)
PART 6: THE INDIVIDUAL, THE COMMUNITY, AND DEMOCRACY	279	(66)
Search for the Public FROM THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS (1927)	281	(12)
Search for the Great Community FROM THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS (1927)	293	(15)
The Inclusive Philosophic Idea (1928)	308	(8)
A Critique of American Civilization (1928)	316	(7)
Renascent Liberalism FROM LIBERALISM AND SOCIAL ACTION (1935)	323	(14)
Democracy Is Radical (1937)	337	(3)
Creative Democracy--The Task Before Us (1939)	340	(5)
PART 7: PRAGMATISM AND CULTURE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ART, AND RELIGION	345	(66)
Fundamentals (1924)	347	(4)
Science, Belief and the Public (1924)	351	(4)
Logical Method and Law (1924)	355	(8)
Science and Society FROM PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION (1931)	363	(6)
Social Science and Social Control (1931)	369	(3)
By Nature and by Art (1944)	372	(8)
Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry FROM LOGIC: THE THEORY OF INQUIRY (1938)	380	(11)
The Live Creature FROM ART AS EXPERIENCE (1934)	391	(10)
Religion versus the Religious FROM A COMMON FAITH (1934)	401	(10)
INDEX	411