Examines the wide range of Dewey's thought and provides a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence.
Molly Cochran is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach (1999).
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.