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....

With the exception of "The Quest for Certainty "(Volume 4) this fifth volume brings together Dewey s writings for the 19291930 period.During this time Dewey published 4 books and 50 articles on philosophical, educational, political, and social issues. His philosophical essays include What Humanism Means to Me and What I Believe, both of which express Dewey s faith in man s potentialities and intelligence, and a lively "Journal of Philosophy "exchange with Ernest Nagel, William Ernest Hocking, C. I. Lewis, and F. J. E. Woodbridge. Educational writings include "The Sources of a Science of...

Introduction by Abraham Edel and Elizabeth FlowerThis seventh volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey and James H. Tufts 1932 "Ethics."Dewey and Tufts state that the book s aim is: To induce a habit of thoughtful consideration, of envisaging the full meaning and consequences of individual conduct and social policies, insisting throughout that ethics must be constantly concerned with the changing problems of daily life."

This volume also includes a collection of essays entitled "The Educational Frontier, "Dewey s articles on logic, the outlawry of war, and philosophy for the "Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, "and his reviews of Alfred North Whitehead s "Adventures of Ideas, "Martin Schutze s "Academic Illusions in the Field of Letters and the Arts, "and Rexford G. Tugwell s "Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts.""

This ninth volume in The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925--1953, brings together sixty items from 1933 and 1934, including Dewey's Terry Lec-tures at Yale University, published as A Common Faith.

In his introduction, Milton R. Konvitz concludes that A Common Faith remains a provocative book, an intellectual 'teaser, ' an essay at religious philoso-phy which no philosopher can wholly bypass.-

Dewey concentrated much of his writing in 1933 and 1934 on issues arising from the economic crises of the Great Depression. In the early 1930s Com-munist activity in...

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...