John Dewey's Educational Philosophy in International Perspective: A New Democracy for the Twenty-First Century

Contributors

171 Contributors Viviana Burza is a professor of social pedagogy at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Calabria, Italy. Her research is primarily concerned with the problems of education relating to the construction of democracy. Among her publications are La formazione tra marginalità e integrazione (The Education between Marginalization and Integration; 2002), Formazione e persona. Il problema della democrazia (Education and Individual: The Problem of Democracy; 2003), and Democrazia e nuova cittadinanza (Democracy and New Citizenship; 2005), which she edited. Franco Cambi is a professor of general pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the University of Florence, Italy. He has done research on the philosophy of education and history of education. Among his numerous publications are Il congegno del discorso pedagogico (The Device of the Pedagogical Problem; 1987), Storia della pedagogia (History of Pedagogy; 1995), Le pedagogie del Novecento (The Pedagogies of the Twentieth Century; 2005), and Abitare il disincanto (To Live the Disenchantment; 2007). Giorgio Chiosso is a professor of the history of education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Turin. His primary research interest is Italian and European history of education of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of La stampa pedagogica e scolastica in Italia, 1820–1943 (Scholastic Publishing in Italy, 1820–1943; 1997); Teseo: Tipografi ed editori scolastico-educativi dell’Ottocento (Teseo: Typographers and Scholastic Publishers of the Nineteenth Century; 2003); and Teseo ’900: Editori scolastico-educativi del primo Novecento (Scholastic Publishers of the First Twentieth Century; 2008). Jim Garrison is a professor of philosophy of education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. His work concentrates on philosophical pragmatism , and he is a past winner of the Jim Merritt Award for his scholarship in the philosophy of education and the John Dewey Society Outstanding 172 Contributors Achievement Award. He is also a past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and the current president of the John Dewey Society. Larry A. Hickman (coeditor) is the director of the Center for Dewey Studies and a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Modern Theories of Higher-Level Predicates (1980), John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology (1990), Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture (2001), and Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism (2007). He is also the editor of Technology as a Human Affair (1990), Reading Dewey (1998), The Essential Dewey (with Thomas Alexander, 1998), and The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1871–1952 (1999, 2001, 2005). Jaime Nubiola is a professor of philosophy at the University of Navarra, Spain. His research focuses on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, pragmatism , and the history of analytic philosophy, and his publications include El compromiso esencialista de la lógica modal (1984), La renovación pragmatista de la filosofía analítica (1994), El taller de la filosofía (1999), and, coauthored with Fernando Zalamea, Peirce y el mundo hispánico (2006). In 1994 he launched in Navarre the Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos to promote the study of C. S. Peirce and pragmatism. He is the editor of the philosophy journal Anuario Filosófico. Hilary Putnam is the Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Before joining the faculty of Harvard, he was Professor of the Philosophy of Science at M.I.T. and also taught at Northwestern University and Princeton University. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), the Philosophy of Science Association, and the Association for Symbolic Logic; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society; a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and the French Academie des Sciences Politiques et Morales; and holds a number of honorary degrees. He has written extensively on issues in metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, and more recently on the relations between scientific and nonscientific knowledge and on American pragmatism . His most recent book is Ethics without Ontology (2004). Ruth Anna Putnam is a professor of philosophy, emerita, at Wellesley College, where she taught for thirty-five years. She is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to William James and a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to John Dewey. She is the author of numerous articles on William James, John Dewey, and pragmatism, as well as political philosophy and ethics. Contributors 173 Giuseppe Spadafora is a professor of the philosophy of education at the Faculty of Humanities...