Investigates the most difficult and neglected aspects of Dewey's thought - his metaphysics and logic.

This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for "Logic: The Theory of Inquiry "(Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 "Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, "and two items from "Intelligence in the Modern World."
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"Freedom and Culture "presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, "the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their advance."

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...