The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 8, 1925 - 1953: 1933, Essays and How We Think, Revised Edition

by John Dewey
edited by Jo Ann Boydston
introduction by Richard Rorty

Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-8093-1246-7 | Paper: 978-0-8093-2818-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-3180-2

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

This volume also includes a collection of essays entitled The Educational Frontier, Dewey’s articles on logic, the outlawry of war, and philosophy for the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and his reviews of Alfred North Whitehead’s Adventures of Ideas, Martin Schutze’s Academic Illusions in the Field of Letters and the Arts, and Rexford G. Tugwell’s Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Book Title

Contents

Introduction by Richard Rorty

Contributions to Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences

Logic

Outlawry of War

Philosophy

Contributions to the Educational Frontier

The Social-Economic Situation and Education

The Underlying Philosophy of Education

How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process

Preface to the New Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Part One: The Problem of Training Thought

1. What Is Thinking?

2. Why Reflective Thinking Must Be an Educational Aim

3. Native Resources in Training Thought

4. School Conditions and the Training of Thought

Part Two: Logical Considerations

5. The Process and Product of Reflective Activity: Psychological Process and Logical Form

6. Examples of Inference and Testing

7. Analysis of Reflective Thinking

8. The Place of Judgment in Reflective Activity

9. Understanding: Ideas and Meanings

10. Understanding: Conception and Definition

11. Systematic Method: Control of Data and Evidence

12. Systematic Method: Control of Reasoning and Concepts

13. Empirical and Scientific Thought

Part Three: The Training of Thought

14. Activity and the Training of Thought

15. From the Concrete to the Abstract

16. Language and the Training of Thought

17. Observation and Information in the Training of Mind

18. The Recitation and the Training of Thought

19. Some General Conclusions

Reviews

The Adventure of Persuasion. Review of Alfred North Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas

A Challenge to Criticism. Review of Martin Schiitze's Academic Illusions in the Field of Letters and the Arts

Review of Rexford G. Tugwell's The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts

Appendixes

1. Excerpts from The Industrial Discipline by Rexford G. Tugwell

2. Foreword to The Educational Frontier, edited by William H. Kilpatrick

Pagination Key to the 1933 How We Think

Textual Apparatus

Textual Commentary

Emendations List

Summary of Substantive Revisions in the 1933 How We Think

Line-End Hyphenation

Substantive Variants in Quotations

Checklist of Dewey's References

Index

The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882–1953

Back Cover

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