This volume republishes forty-four essays, reviews, and miscellaneous pieces from 1939, 1940, and 1941.
In his Introduction, R. W. Sleeper characterizes the contents of this volume as “vintage Dewey. Ranging widely over problems of theory and practice, they reveal him commencing his ninth decade at the peak of his intellectual powers.”
“Nature in Experience,” Dewey’s reply to Morris R. Cohen and William Ernest Hocking, “is a model of clarity and responsiveness,” writes Sleeper, “perhaps his clearest statement of why it is that metaphysics does not play the fundamental role for him that it had regularly played for his predecessors.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jo Ann Boydston is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
Sleeper,
R. W.
ESSAYS
Experience, Knowledge and Value: A Rejoinder
I Believe
Time and Individuality
My Philosophy of Law
The Philosophy of Whitehead
Nature in Experience
The Vanishing Subject in the Psychology of James
Propositions, Warranted Assertibility, and Truth
The Objectivism-Subjectivism of Modern Philosophy
Presenting Thomas Jefferson
Creative Democracy–The Task Before Us
The Case for Bertrand Russell
Social Realities versus Police Court Fictions
The Basis for Hope
The Meaning of the Term: Liberalism
Art as Our Heritage
“Contrary to Human Nature”
Address of Welcome to the League for Industrial Democracy
Education: 1800–1939
Higher Learning and War
The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy
For a New Education
REVIEWS
Review of Charles A. Beard's and Mary R. Beard's America in Midpassage
Review of Douglas Clyde Macintosh's Social Religion
Review of Max C. Otto's The Human Enterprise: An Attempt to Relate Philosophy to Daily Life
The Techniques of Reconstruction. Review of Karl Mannheim's Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction
Review of The Philosophy of George Santayana
Schilpp,
Paul Arthur
ADDRESSES
Message to Friends of the John Dewey Labor Research Fund
Lessons from the War–in Philosophy
MISCELLANY
Introduction to William James's Talks to Teachers on Psychology
Introduction to Problems of Ageing
Foreword to Elsie Ripley Clapp's Community Schools in Action
Foreword to Edwin C. Johnson's Mars in Civilian Disguise!
Introduction to The Bertrand Russell Case
Foreword to Educational Trends
Introduction to American Journal of Economics and Sociology
“No Matter What Happens–Stay Out”
The Committee for Cultural Freedom
“Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization”
Russell as a Moral Issue
Investigating Education
Censorship Not Wanted
Statement on Academic Freedom
Dewey Greets Teachers Union
APPENDIXES
1.
Some Difficulties in Dewey's Anthropocentric Naturalism
This volume republishes forty-four essays, reviews, and miscellaneous pieces from 1939, 1940, and 1941.
In his Introduction, R. W. Sleeper characterizes the contents of this volume as “vintage Dewey. Ranging widely over problems of theory and practice, they reveal him commencing his ninth decade at the peak of his intellectual powers.”
“Nature in Experience,” Dewey’s reply to Morris R. Cohen and William Ernest Hocking, “is a model of clarity and responsiveness,” writes Sleeper, “perhaps his clearest statement of why it is that metaphysics does not play the fundamental role for him that it had regularly played for his predecessors.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jo Ann Boydston is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
Sleeper,
R. W.
ESSAYS
Experience, Knowledge and Value: A Rejoinder
I Believe
Time and Individuality
My Philosophy of Law
The Philosophy of Whitehead
Nature in Experience
The Vanishing Subject in the Psychology of James
Propositions, Warranted Assertibility, and Truth
The Objectivism-Subjectivism of Modern Philosophy
Presenting Thomas Jefferson
Creative Democracy–The Task Before Us
The Case for Bertrand Russell
Social Realities versus Police Court Fictions
The Basis for Hope
The Meaning of the Term: Liberalism
Art as Our Heritage
“Contrary to Human Nature”
Address of Welcome to the League for Industrial Democracy
Education: 1800–1939
Higher Learning and War
The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy
For a New Education
REVIEWS
Review of Charles A. Beard's and Mary R. Beard's America in Midpassage
Review of Douglas Clyde Macintosh's Social Religion
Review of Max C. Otto's The Human Enterprise: An Attempt to Relate Philosophy to Daily Life
The Techniques of Reconstruction. Review of Karl Mannheim's Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction
Review of The Philosophy of George Santayana
Schilpp,
Paul Arthur
ADDRESSES
Message to Friends of the John Dewey Labor Research Fund
Lessons from the War–in Philosophy
MISCELLANY
Introduction to William James's Talks to Teachers on Psychology
Introduction to Problems of Ageing
Foreword to Elsie Ripley Clapp's Community Schools in Action
Foreword to Edwin C. Johnson's Mars in Civilian Disguise!
Introduction to The Bertrand Russell Case
Foreword to Educational Trends
Introduction to American Journal of Economics and Sociology
“No Matter What Happens–Stay Out”
The Committee for Cultural Freedom
“Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization”
Russell as a Moral Issue
Investigating Education
Censorship Not Wanted
Statement on Academic Freedom
Dewey Greets Teachers Union
APPENDIXES
1.
Some Difficulties in Dewey's Anthropocentric Naturalism