John R. Shook is Research Associate in Philosophy and faculty of the Science and the Public EdM program at the University at Buffalo, USA. Among his books are "Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality" (2000) and "John Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit "(2010). He has edited or co-edited more than a dozen books including "Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism" (2003) and" A Companion to Pragmatism" (2005). He was General Editor of the" Dictionary of Early American Philosophers" (2012) and the "Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers" (2005).