Dewey, John
Dewey, John
(1859-) Leading American philosopher. The spirit of democracy and an abiding faith in the efficacy of human intelligence run through the many pages he has presented in the diverse fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, psychology, aesthetics, religion, ethics, politics and education, in all of which he has spoken with authority. Progressive education owes its impetus to his guidance and its tenets largely to his formulation. He is the chief exponent of that branch of pragmatism known as instrumentalism. Among his main works are
Psychology, 1886;
Outline of Ethics, 1891;
Studies in Logical Theory, 1903;
Ethics (Dewey and Tufts), 1908;
How We Think, 1910;
Influence of Darwin on German Philosophy, 1910;
Democracy and Education, 1916;
Essays in Experimental Logic, 1916;
Reconstruction in Philosophy, 1920;
Human Nature and Conduct, 1922;
Experience and Nature, 1925;
The Quest for Certainty, 1929;
Art as Experience, 1933;
LogicThe Theory of Inquiry, 1939.
Cf.
J. Ratner, The Philosophy of John Dewey, 1940,
M. H. Thomas, A Bibliography of John Dewey, 1882-1939,
The Philosophy of John Dewey, ed. P. A. Schilpp (Evanston, 1940).