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John Dewey (1859–1952) was twentieth-century America’s premier philoso­ pher, educational theorist, and public intellectual. He wrote dozens of books and hundreds of articles in areas of both technical philosophy and popular interest, including Democracy and Education (1916), The Public and Its Problems (1927), Experience and Nature (1929), and Art as Experience (1934). He taught at the University of Chicago (1894–1904), where he created the department of philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy and the Laboratory School, and at Columbia University (1904–52). Phillip Deen is a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College. His articles on the history of pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and contemporary democratic theory have appeared in Contemporary Pragmatism, the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. ...

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