Volume 8 comprises all Dewey s published writings for the year 1915and only" "for 1915, a year of typically elevated productivity, which saw publication of fifteen articles and miscellaneous pieces and three books, two of which are reprinted here: "German Philosophy and Politics "and "Schools of Tomorrow."Professor Hook says that the publications in this volume reveal John Dewey at the height of his philosophical powers. Even though his greatest works were still to come"Democracy and Education," " Experience and Nature," " The Quest for Certainty," " "and "Logic: The Theory of Inquiry" the"...

John Dewey's best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa-tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: "It illuminates directly or indirectly all the basic issues that are cen-tral today to the concerns of intelligent educators. . . . It throws light on sev-eral obscure corners in Dewey's general philosophy in a vigorous, simple prose style often absent in his more technical writings. And it is the only work in any field originally published as a...

Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey s writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.

Dewey s dominant theme in these pages is war and its aftermath. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armistice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that...

A collection of all of Dewey s writings for 1920 with the exception of "Letters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition."The nineteen items collected here, including his major work, "Reconstruction in Philosophy, "evolved in the main from Dewey s travel, touring, lecturing, and teaching in Japan and China. Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction to this volume that "Reconstruction in Philosophy "is a radical book . . . a pugnacious book by a gentle man. It is in this book that Dewey summarizes his version of pragmatism, then called...

Volume 13 in "The Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924," series brings together Dewey s writings for 1921 and 1922, with the exception of "Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition."Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction that the 53" "items constituting this volume defend Dewey s beliefs at 63 and look forward to what he was yet to write. The essays to which Dewey responded, as well as abstracts of articles that have been published only in Japanese, appear as appendixes.The article Valuation and Experimental Knowledge treats a...

Volume 14 of "The Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924," series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey s "Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.""""Human Nature and Conduct "evolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. The lectures were extensively rewritten and expanded into one of Dewey s best-known works. As Murray G. Murphey says in his Introduction, It was a work in which Dewey sought to make explicit the social character of his psychology and philosophysomething which had long been...

Volume 15 in The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, series brings together Dewey's writings for the period 1923-1924. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Volume 15 completes the republication of Dewey's extensive writings for the 25-year period included in the Middle Works series. Many facets of Dewey's interests--politics, philosophy, education, and social con-cerns--are illuminated by the 40 items from 1923 and 1924. Inspired by his own convictions and those of his friend Salmon O. Levinson, founder of the American Committee for the Outlawry of...

With the exception of "Experience and Nature, "(Volume 1 of the Later Works), this volume contains all of Dewey s writings for 1925 and 1926, as well as his 1927 book, "The Public and Its Problems. A Modern Language Association s Committee on Scholarly Editions "textual edition.The first essay in this volume, The Development of American Pragmatism, is perhaps Dewey s best-known article of these years, emphasizing the uniquely American origins of his own philosophical innovations. Other essays focus on Dewey s continuing investigation of the nature of intelligent conduct, as, for example, his...

All of Dewey s writings for 1927 and 1928 with the exception of "The Public and Its Problems, "which appears in Volume 2, "A Modern Language Association s Committee on Scholarly Editions "textual edition.These essays are, as Sidorsky says in his Introduction, framed, in great measure, by those two poles of his philosophical interest: looking backward, in a sense, to the defense of naturalistic metaphysics and moving forward to the justification and to the implications for practice of an empirical theory. Dewey s five essays on education are evidence of his continued interest in that field....