A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1999
Larry A. Hickman is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies and
Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale. He is author of John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology and
editor of Technology as a Human Affair and Reading Dewey. He is
also General Editor of The Collected Works of John Dewey,
1882-1953: The Electronic Edition.
Thomas M. Alexander is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale and the author of John Dewey's Theory of
Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling.
Dewey (1859-1952) is probably best known to the public in general for his philosophy of education. This collection of his writings, covering the entire course of his intellectual development over time, will therefore provide a necessary corrective to this limited view by showing the depth and breadth of his philosophic interests. In the course of his long life, Dewey wrote and published on myriad topics: certainly, and perhaps most importantly to him, on public education, but also‘and extensively‘on technical philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, logic, aesthetics, religion, science, ethics, and social philosophy. And though neglected by academic philosophers for a time, Dewey's pragmatic orientation has recently proved influential in the thought of Quine, Putnam, and Rorty, among others. This two-volume collection of essays and book chapters, culled from an earlier 37-volume critical edition of his works, provides for the first time a publication of his writings that is both manageable and comprehensive. For academic and larger public libraries.‘Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. Lib., Washingon, DC
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