The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 6, 1899-1924: Journal articles, book reviews, miscellany in the 1910-1911 period, and How We Think

by John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (Editor), H. S. Thayer (Introduction), V. T. Thayer (Introduction)

Overview

William James, remarking in 1909on the differences among the three leading spokesmen for pragmatism—himself, F. C. S. Schiller, and John Dewey—said that Schiller’s views were essential­ly “psychological,” his own, “epistemo­logical,” whereas Dewey’s “panorama is the widest of the three.”

The two main subjects of Dewey’s essays at this time are also two of the most fundamental and persistent philo­sophical questions: the nature of knowl­edge and the meaning of truth. Dewey’s distinctive analysis is concentrated chiefly in seven essays, in a long, sig­nificant, and previously almost un­known work entitled “The Problem of Truth,” and in his book How We Think. As a whole, the 1910–11writings il­lustrate especially well that which the Thayers identify in their Introduction as Dewey’s “deepening concentration on questions of logic and epistemology as contrasted with the more pronounced psychological and pedagogical treat­ment in earlier writings.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780809308354
Publisher:	Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date:	06/29/1978
Series:	Collected Works of John Dewey , #6
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

H. S. Thayer is Professor of Philoso­phy in the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

V. T. Thayer is a former professor of education, for many years director of the Ethical Cul­ture Schools in New York.