The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899 - 1924

by Dewey, John; Boydston, Jo Ann; Hook, Sidney

• ISBN13: 9780809328031
• ISBN10: 0809328038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr

Summary

This volume contains all of John Dewey's publications for the year 1915, a year of great productivity, during which he published fifteen articles and miscellaneous pieces and three books. As Sidney Hook explains in his introduction, even though Dewey's greatest works were still to come, "the themes elaborated therein were already sounded and developed with incisive brevity in the articles and books of this banner year." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Essays	p. 3
The Subject-Matter of Metaphysical Inquiry	p. 3
The Logic of Judgments of Practice	p. 14
The Existence of the World as a Logical Problem	p. 83
Introductory Address to the American Association of University Professors	p. 98
Annual Address of the President to the American Association of University Professors	p. 104
Faculty Share in University Control	p. 109
Industrial Education-A Wrong Kind	p. 117
Splitting Up the School System	p. 123
State or City Control of Schools?	p. 128
German Philosophy and Politics	p. 135
Schools of To-Morrow	p. 205
Miscellany	p. 405
Professorial Freedom	p. 407
The Situation at the University of Utah	p. 409
Education vs. Trade-Training: Reply to David Snedden	p. 411
Letter to William Bagley and the Editorial Staff of School and Home Education	p. 414
Reply to Charles P. Megan's "Parochial School Education"	p. 416
Reply to William Ernest Hocking's "Political Philosophy in Germany"	p. 418
The One-World of Hitler's National Socialism	p. 421
Appendixes	p. 447
The Philosophy of Biology: Vitalism versus Mechanism	p. 449
Vocational Education	p. 460
Editorial	p. 466
Parochial School Education	p. 471
Political Philosophy in Germany	p. 473
Textual Apparatus	p. 481
Index	p. 537
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