The Cambridge Companion to Dewey

This book examines the wide range of Dewey's thought and provides a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence.

Molly Cochran (Author)

9780521874564, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 July 2010

374 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.71 kg

"Chief among the many virtues of The Cambridge Companion to Dewey is its list of contributors.... the volume suggests some new and largely unexplored dimensions of Deweyan pragmatism.... an excellent collection which deserves a central place among the scholarly resources available to those working on Dewey’s philosophy.... The Cambridge Companion to Dewey is the best available document of the state-of-the-art in Dewey-inspired philosophy."
--Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University, Transactions

John Dewey (1859–1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was instrumental to its articulation as a philosophy and the spread of its influence beyond philosophy to other disciplines. His prolific writings encompass metaphysics, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, psychology, moral philosophy, the philosophies of religion, art, and education, and democratic political and international theory. The contributors to this Companion examine the wide range of Dewey's thought and provide a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence, both elsewhere in philosophy and on other disciplines.

List of contributors
Method of citation
Introduction Molly Cochran
1. The making of a democratic philosopher: the intellectual development of John Dewey Robert Westbrook
2. Dewey's epistemology Ruth Anna Putnam
3. The naturalism of John Dewey Richard Gale
4. Dewey's logic of inquiry Isaac Levi
5. The primacy of practice in Dewey's experimental empiricism J. E. Tiles
6. Cognitive science and Dewey's theory of mind, thought, and language Mark Johnson
7. John Dewey on action Matthias Jung
8. Dewey's moral philosophy Jennifer Welchman
9. Ethics as moral inquiry: Dewey and the moral psychology of social reform James Bohman
10. Dewey and pragmatic religious naturalism Sami Pihlström
11. Dewey's aesthetics Richard Eldridge
12. Dewey's philosophy of education: a critique from the perspective of care theory Nel Noddings
13. Dewey's vision of radical democracy Richard J. Bernstein
14. Dewey as an international thinker Molly Cochran.

Subject Areas: Social theory [JHBA], History of ideas [JFCX], Social & political philosophy [HPS], History of Western philosophy [HPC]