Becoming John Dewey
Subtitle: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780253340825
Subjects: Biography: general; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophers; Dewey, John; Biography / Autobiography; 1859-1952; Dewey, John,; Philosophy
First sentence: There is a large and growing body of scholarship on John Dewey involving philosophers, historians, psychologists, and other disciplinary orientations.
Description: "As one of America's "public intellectuals," John Dewey was engaged in a lifelong struggle to understand the human mind and the nature of human inquiry. According to Thomas C. Dalton, the successful pursuit of this mission demanded that Dewey become more than just a philosopher; it compelled him to become thoroughly familiar with the theories and methods of physics, psychology, and the neurosciences, as well as to become engaged in educational and social reform.

Tapping archival sources and Dewey's extensive correspondence, Dalton reveals that Dewey had close personal and intellectual ties to scientists and scholars who helped form the mature expression of his thought. Dewey's relationships with F.M. Alexander, Henri Matisse, Niels Bohr, Myrtle McGraw, and Lawrence K. Frank, among others, show how he dispersed pragmatism throughout American thought and culture.

Dewey's pragmatist successors are considered along with ways for contemporary philosophy to remain true to the Deweyan spirit of experimentation."--BOOK JACKET.