This third volume in the definitive edition of Dewey's early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brought Dewey to the University of Michigan. Morris's death in 1889 left vacant the Department of Philosophy chairmanship and led to Dewey's returning to fill that post after a year's stay at Minnesota. Appearing here, among all his writings from 1889 through 1892, are Dewey's earliest comprehensive statements on logic and his first book on ethics. Dewey's marked copy of the galley-proof for his important article The Present Position of Logical...
This third volume in the definitive edition of Dewey's early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brough...
Volume 1 of "The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898" is entitled "Early Essays and "Leibniz"'"s New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, "1882-1888." Included here are all Dewey's earliest writings, from his first published article through his book on Leibniz. The materials in this volume provide a chronological record of Dewey's early development--beginning with the article he sent to the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy "in 1881 while he was a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and closing with his widely-acclaimed work on Leibniz in the Grigg's Series of German...
Volume 1 of "The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898" is entitled "Early Essays and "Leibniz"'"s New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, "1882...