By 1907, the first of the three years embraced by Volume 4, Dewey had abandoned thoughts of a possible career in the administration of higher education and was firmly established as a leading member of the Department of Philosophy at Columbia. As Lewis Hahn points out in his Introduction, these were very productive years for Dewey. In addition to numerous lectures and speaking engagements and participation in professional meetings, he published fifteen or so substantial articles, almost as many shorter things, a syllabus on "The Pragmatic Movement of Contemporary Thought, "a monograph on...

This fifth volume of the Middle Works contains "Ethics "by John Dewey and his former colleague at the University of Michigan, James H. Tufts, which appeared as one of the last in the Holt American Science series of textbooks. Within some six months after publication, "Ethics "was adopted as a textbook by thirty colleges. The book continued to be extremely popular and widely used, and was reprinted twenty-five times before both authors completely revised their respective parts for the new 1932 edition.Up to the time "Ethics "was published, Dewey s approach to ethics was known primarily from...

William James, remarking in 1909 on the differences among the three leading spokesmen for pragmatismhimself, F. C. S. Schiller, and John Deweysaid that Schiller s views were essentially psychological, his own, epistemological, whereas Dewey s panorama is the widest of the three. The two main subjects of Dewey s essays at this time are also two of the most fundamental and persistent philosophical questions: the nature of knowledge and the meaning of truth. Dewey s distinctive analysis is concentrated chiefly in seven essays, in a long, significant, and previously almost unknown work entitled...

During the three years embraced by Volume 7, Dewey published twenty articles" "and reviews, one of the articles of monograph-length, The Psychology of Social Behavior, one small book, "Interest and Effort in Education, "and seventy encyclopedia articles.A salient and arresting feature of the essays is the continuing polemic between Dewey and some of his critics. Ralph Ross, whose perceptive Introduction to the volume provides a broad perspective of the various philosophical" "controversies in which Dewey was engaged, comments that when Dewey was pitting himself against important adversaries,...

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...