John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism

Contributors

Contributors  Jim Garrison is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. His work concentrates on philosophical pragmatism . Jim is a past winner of the Jim Merritt award for his scholarship in the philosophy of education as well as the John Dewey Society Outstanding Achievement Award. He is a past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and current president of the John Dewey Society. His most recent book is an edited work: Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey (2008). Larry A. Hickman is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His most recent book is Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey (2007). He is also the editor of the electronic edition of The Collected Works of John Dewey, – and The Correspondence of John Dewey, –. Stefan Neubert teaches in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne and is Co-Director of the Cologne Dewey Center. His publications include Erkenntnis, Verhalten und Kommunikation— John Dewey’s Philosophie des ‘‘experience’’ in interaktionistischkonstruktivistischer Interpretation (1998) and ‘‘Konstruktivismus, Demokratie und Multikultur’’ (2002). Kersten Reich is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne and Co-Director of the Cologne {  }  contributors Dewey Center. His books include Systemisch-konstruktivistische Pädagogik (2000) and numerous other works in the philosophy of education. Kenneth W. Stikkers is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research involves the historical and thematic connections between American pragmatism and continental thought, especially phenomenology and the sociology of knowledge. He is the editor and co-editor of several works by Max Scheler, coeditor of Wealth and Well-Being (1986), and author of the forthcoming Economics as Moral Philosophy and numerous articles on philosophy of economics, contemporary continental thought, and American philosophy. ...