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Preeminent American philosopher and educator John Dewey (1859-1952) rejected Hegelian idealism for the pragmatism of William James.In this collection of informal, highly readable essays, originally published between 1897 and 1909, Dewey articulates his now classic philosophical concepts of knowledge and truth and the nature of reality. Here Dewey introduces his scientific method and uses critical intelligence to reject the traditional ways of ...

America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society. In this penetrating study, he addresses the fear that personal creative potential will be trampled by assembly-line monotony, political bureaucracy, and an industrialized culture of uniformity. Armed with his pragmatic approach and his belief...

John Dewey, one of America's greatest popular philosophers and educators, emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education should play.In this progressive work, written more than 80 years ago, Dewey, recognizing that we are born with the ability to think, argues that the educator's fundamental role is to train us to think well. At a time when America is lamenting the lack of solid training in the sciences at the elem...

The twentieth century has witnessed the blossoming of Western culture: new technology, communications and transportation systems, social, political, educational, agricultural, and medical advances. But with these changes have come the strains and tensions of conflicting interests, desires, and values within the community. John Dewey, one of America's most prolific writers of popular philosophy, believed that humankind could keep a firm hold on...

In this series of lectures, one of the great works of his maturity, Dewey presents the metaphysics underlying his influential views on science, ethics, education, and social reform.

Zu seinen Lebzeiten war John Dewey nicht nur Amerikas berühmtester Philosoph, sondern auch einer der führenden Intellektuellen. Seine Schriften reichten in ihrer Wirkung weit über das akademische Publikum hinaus und hatten großen Einfluß auf die öffentlichen Debatten. Er gilt als einer der Väter des Pragmatismus, einer philosophischen Position, die heute wieder stark diskutiert wird.In seinem Hauptwerk Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung, das ers...