Larry A. Hickman is director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of "Modern Theories of Higher Level Predicates, John Deweys Pragmatic Technology, "and "Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture." he is also the editor of "Technology as a Human Affair, Reading Dewey, The Essential Dewey" (with Thomas Alexander), the electronic edition of "The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, " and the three volumes of "The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1871-1952."