Ethics.John Dewey , James H. Tufts

Tufts Institute of the Environment

ATVB Named Lecture Review-Insight Into Author: James H. Morrissey.

What are your scientific inspirations? I became fascinated with biology when I was in high school. Biological systems are both incredibly complicated but also remarkably self-regulating, and it seemed to me that we understood very little of the mechanisms that made biological systems work. This made biology mysterious and exciting. I like focusing on hard problems, and I try to work on areas th...

Dewey and Cosmopolitanism

Many people rightly consider John Dewey a distinctively American thinker. He was born into a time-honored New England culture. He was educated in American schools. He lived and worked virtually his entire life in the United States. He had a lifelong respect for American traditions in poetry, literature, philosophy, and more. He was active in political and cultural movements, ranging from the pr...

Dewey, Eros and Education

We are attracted by our heart's desires. In love we passionately desire to possess the good, or at least what we perceive to be the good. But what we seek soon comes to possess us in thought, feeling, and action. It becomes who we are, the content of our character. In this paper I want to talk about education and Eros. I want to talk about Eros as a creative poetic force that makes new meanings...

DEWEY ASSURES Civil EMPLOYEES