John Dewey

John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

The overriding theme of Dewey's works was his profound belief in democracy, be it in politics, education, or communication and journalism. As Dewey himself stated in 1888, while still at the University of Michigan, "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous." Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—to be major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. He asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by communication among citizens, experts and politicians.

Dewey was one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founding thinkers of functional psychology. His paper "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology", published in 1896, is regarded as the first major work in the (Chicago) functionalist school of psychology. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd-most-cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Dewey was also a major educational reformer for the 20th century. A well-known public intellectual, he was a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. While a professor at the University of Chicago, he founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to apply and test his progressive ideas on pedagogical method. Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.

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    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1932
    Ḥaidarābād : ʻUs̲māniyā Yūnivarsiṭī, 1932.
    652 p. ; 24 cm.
  2. 2
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1915
    New York, E. P. Dutton & Company [c1915]
    5 p. ̋., 316 p. front., plates. 20 cm.
  3. 3
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1922
    New York, H. Holt and Company, 1922.
    vii, 336 p. 20 cm.
  4. 4
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1909
    Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Company [c1909]
    ix, [1] p., 1 ̋., 60, [2] p. 19 cm.
  5. 5
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1927
    New York, H. Holt and Company [c1927]
    vi, 224 p. 20 cm.
  6. 6
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1897
    New York, Harper, 1897.
    xii, 427 p.
  7. 7
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1932
    Ḥaidarābād : ʻUs̲māniyā Yūnivarsiṭī, 1932.
    1 online resource (652 p.)
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
  8. 8
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1913
    Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company [c1913]
    ix, 101 p. 18 cm.
  9. 9
    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1927
    New York, H. Holt and Company [c1927]
    1 online resource (vi, 224 p.)
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
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    by Dewey, John, 1859-1952
    Published 1897
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1897.
    20 pages ; 24 cm.

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