by John Dewey
edited by Jo Ann Boydston
introduction by Ralph Ross
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Paper: 978-0-8093-2802-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8093-0881-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-3163-5
Library of Congress Classification B945.D41 2008b
Dewey Decimal Classification 191

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK

During the three years embraced by Volume 7, Dewey published twenty articles and reviews, one of the articles of monograph-length, “The Psychology of Social Behavior,” one small book, Interest and Effort in Education, and sev­enty encyclopedia articles.


A salient and arresting feature of the essays is the continuing polemic be­tween Dewey and some of his critics. Ralph Ross, whose perceptive Introduc­tion to the volume provides a broad per­spective of the various philosophical controversies in which Dewey was en­gaged, comments that “when Dewey was pitting himself against important adversaries, his talents as a critic were fully evident.”