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JOHN DEWEY (1859 - 1952)

ASSOCIATIONS

• John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture

CONFERENCES

• John Dewey's 150th Birthday Celebration: an International Conference on Dewey's Impact on America and the World, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, October 22-24, 2009

COURSES

• University of Colorado, Denver: John Dewey (Hildebrand)

JOURNALS

• Education and Culture: Journal of John Dewey Society
• Insights: Newsletter of John Dewey Society

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Essential Dewey.  2 Vols.  Ed. Larry A. Hickman and Thomas M. Alexander.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998.

    • Pragmatism, Education, Democracy. 

    • Ethics, Logic, Psychology. 

  • The Moral Writings of John Dewey.  Ed. James Gouinlock.  Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1994.

  • Essential Writings.  Ed. David Sidorsky.  New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

  • On Education: Selected Writings.  Ed. Reginald D. Archambault.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1974.

  • The Philosophy of John Dewey.  2 Vols.  Ed. John J. McDermott.  New York: Putnam and Sons, 1973.  Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.

  • Collected Works, 1882-1953.  37 Vols.  Ed. Jo Ann Boydston.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1969-1991.

    • The Later Works, 1925 - 1953.  17 Vols.  1981-1990.

    • The Middle Works, 1899 - 1924.  15 Vols.  1976-1983.

    • The Early Works, 1882 - 1898.  5 Vols.

  • On Experience, Nature and Freedom: Representative Selections.  Ed. Richard J. Bernstein.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.

  • Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude.  New York: Henry Holt, 1917.  

  • Essays in Experimental Logic.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1916.  Rpt. New York: Dover, n.d.

  • The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought.  New York: Henry Holt, 1910. 

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Knowing and the Known.  By Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley.  1949.

  • Problems of Men.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1946.

  • Theory of Valuation.  1939.

  • Freedom and Culture.  New York: Capricorn, 1939.

  • Logic: the Theory of Inquiry.  New York: Henry Holt, 1938.

  • Liberalism and Social Action.  New York: Capricorn, 1935.

  • A Common Faith.  1934.

  • Art as Experience.  New York: Minton, Balch, 1934.  Rpt. Putnam, 1958.

  • Philosophy and Civilisation.  1929.

  • Characters and Events.  2 Vols.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1929.

  • Individualism Old and New.  New York: Capricorn, 1929.

  • The Quest for Certainty.  New York: Minton, Balch, 1929.

  • The Public and its Problems.  1927.

  • Experience and Nature.  Chicago: Open Court, 1925.

  • Human Nature and Conduct.  New York: Henry Holt, 1922.

  • Reconstruction in Philosophy.  New York: Henry Holt, 1920. 

  • Democracy and Education: an Introduction to Philosophy of Education.  New York: Macmillan, 1916.

  • How We Think.  Boston: Heath, 1910.

  • Ethics.  1908.

  • Studies in Logical Theory.  By Dewey, et al.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1903.

  • The School and Society.  1899.

  • Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding.  1888.

  • Psychology.  1887.

  • "The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy."  Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude.  New York: Henry Holt, 1917.  3-69. 

    • On Experience, Nature and Freedom: Representative Selections.  Ed. R. J. Bernstein.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.  19-69.

  • "From Absolutism to Experimentalism."  

  • "Context and Thought." 

    • On Experience, Nature and Freedom: Representative Selections.  Ed. R. J. Bernstein.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.  88-110.

  • "Philosophy and Democracy."  

  • "The Development of American Pragmatism."

  • "The American Intellectual Frontier."    

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Brock University: Mead Project: Selected Books

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy's Search for the Immutable (1929)

  • Democracy and Education: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916):

    • ILTWeb Version

    • Project Gutenberg Version

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Haskins, C., and D. Seiple, eds.  Dewey Reconfigured: Essays on Deweyan Pragmatism.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

  • Hickman, Larry A., Stefan Neubert, and Kersten Reich, eds.  John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism.  New York: Fordham UP, 2009.

  • Hook, Sidney, ed.  John Dewey: Science and Freedom.  New York: Dial, 1950.

  • Lamont, Corliss, ed.  Dialogue on John Dewey.  New York: Horizon, 1959.

  • McDermott, John J., ed.  The Philosophy of John Dewey.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1973.

  • Schilpp, Paul Arthur, and Lewis Hahn, eds.  The Philosophy of John Dewey.  LaSalle, Ill: Open Court, 1931.  Rpt. 1951 and 1989.

  • Seigfried, Charlene Haddock, ed.  Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Alexander, Thomas.  John Dewey's Theory of Art, Imagination and Experience.  

  • Boisvert, Raymond D.  John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

  • Boisvert, Raymond D.  Dewey’s Metaphysics.  New York: Fordham UP, 1988.

  • Bullert, Gary.  The Politics of John Dewey.  Buffalo: Prometheus, 1983.

  • Burke, T.  Dewey's New Logic: a Reply to Russell.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.

  • Campbell, James.  Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence.  LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1995.

  • Coghlan, Neil.  Young John Dewey: an Essay in American Intellectual History.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1975.

  • Dykhuizen, George.  The Life and Mind of John Dewey.  Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois UP, 1973.

  • Engler, Ulrich.  Kritik der Erfahring: Die Bedeutung der asthetischen Erfahrung in der Philosophie John Deweys.  Wurzburg: Konigshausen und Neuman, 1992.

  • Fesmire, Steven.  John Dewey and Moral Imagination.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.

  • Goodman, Russell B.  "John Dewey."  American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.  90-124.

  • Gouinlock, J.  John Dewey's Philosophy of Value.  New York: Humanities, 1972.

  • Hickman, Larry A.  Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey.  New York: Fordham UP, 2007.

  • Hickman, Larry A.  Reading Dewey.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998.

  • Hickman, Larry A.  John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.

  • Hildebrand, David L.  John Dewey: a Beginner's Guide.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2008.

  • Hildebrand, David L.  Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists.  Memphis: Vanderbilt UP, 2003

  • Hook, Sidney.  Dewey: an Intellectual Portrait.  New York: John Day, 1939.

  • Johnston, James Scott.  Inquiry and Education: John Dewey and the Quest for Democracy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.

  • Kadlec, Alison.  Dewey's Critical Pragmatism.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007.

  • Martin, Jay.  The Education of John Dewey: a Biography.  New York: Columbia UP, 2002.

  • Kulp, Christopher B.  The End of Epistemology: Dewey and His Current Allies on the Spectator Theory of Knowledge.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992. 

  • Popp, Jerome A.  Evolution's First Philosopher: John Dewey and the Continuity of Nature.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.

  • Rockefeller, Steven.  John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1991.

  • Rogers, Melvin L.  The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy.  New York: Columbia UP, 2008.

  • Rorty, Richard.  "Dewey's Metaphysics."  The Consequences of Pragmatism.  Minnesota: U of Minneapolis, 1982.  72-89.

  • Ryan, Alan.  John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

  • Shook, John R.  Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality.  Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2000.

  • Simpson, Douglas J.  John Dewey.  New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

  • Sleeper, R. W.  The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

  • Thayer, H. S.  The Logic of Pragmatism: an Examination of John Dewey's Logic.  New York: Humanities Press, 1952.

  • Tiles, J. E.  Dewey.  New York: Routledge, 1988.

  • Welchman, Jennifer.  Dewey’s Ethical Thought.  Ithaca.: Cornell UP, 1995.

  • West, Cornel.  "The Coming of Age of American Pragmatism: John Dewey."  The American Evasion of Philosophy: a Genealogy of Pragmatism.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.  69-111.

  • Westbrook, Robert B.  John Dewey and American Democracy.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.

  • White, Morton.  The Origin of Dewey's Instrumentalism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1942.

On-Line:

• Anderson, Elizabeth: Dewey's Moral Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Boisvert, Raymond D.: John Dewey

• Ecker, Pam: John Dewey, 1859-1952

• Festenstein, Matthew: Dewey's Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Field, Richard: John Dewey (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Garrison, Jim: John Dewey (Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Education)

• Lark, Vaneecia: John Dewey

• Leddy, Tom: Dewey's Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Neill, James: John Dewey: Philosophy of Education

• Smith Mark K.: John Dewey and Informal Education

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: John Dewey

• Williams, Brian A.: Thought and Action John Dewey at the University of Michigan

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Asia:

• Soka Education Research Institute: Center for Dewey Studies

Europe:

• Germany:
  • University of Cologne: Dewey Centre
• Hungary:
  • University of Szeged: John Dewey Kutatóközpont
• Poland:
  • Jagiellonian University: John Dewey Research Center

USA:

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: Center for Dewey Studies

WWW GATEWAYS

• DEWEY-L Listserv
• Hildebrand, David: JohnDewey.org
• Pragmatism Cybrary: John Dewey, American Pragmatist

PHILWEB was last updated: October 15, 2009

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