A liberalism which scorns all individualism is fundamentally misguided. This is the chief thesis of this paper. To argue for it, I look closely at some key concepts. The concepts of morislity and individualism are crucial. I emphasize Dewey on the "individuality of the mint\ll and a Deweyan discussion of language, communication, and community. The thesis links individualism and liberalism, and ...

Describing and categorizing organizational forms remains a central problem in organization theory. Unfortunately defining organizatic»\al form poses numerous difficulties. Rather than attempting to categorize entire organizations, researchers have instead suggested focusing on how particuleutasks are performed, i.e., adopting the process as the unit of analysis. An important practical problem t...

Richard Gale’s slender monograph is a sometimes insightful, sometimes enervating and always personal reckoning with John Dewey’s philosophy. Gale’s basic thesis is that Dewey is a unificationist malgré lui, that despite being committed to empiricism and pluralism his pragmatism remains profoundly metaphysical in a non-naturalistic sense. This claim is hardly new or surprising. Thinkers as diver...

One hundred and twenty years ago, the American philosopher and psychologist John Dewey (Fig. 1) published his seminal paper The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology in the Psychological Review (Dewey, 1896). In this paper, Dewey challenged the reflex arc, a by-then (and since then, as we will soon demonstrate) consensual unifying framework for action and perception. The framework, advanced by Europ...

In this article, I introduce the Dewey-Lippmann democracy debate of the 1920s as a vehicle for considering how social theory can enhance the empirical viability of participatory democratic theory within the current context of advanced capitalism. I situate within this broad theoretical framework the theories of Habermas and Dewey. In the process, I argue (a) that while Dewey largely failed to r...

Article history: Received 18 May 2009 Received in revised form 1 August 2010 Accepted 3 August 2010 Available online xxxx Finding all the occurrences of a tree pattern in an XML database is a core operation for efficient evaluation of XML queries. The Dewey labeling scheme is commonly used to label an XML document to facilitate XML query processing by recording information on the path of an ele...

Ghost-busting Ghost-busting, or less colloquially, anti-Cartesianism or non-representationalism, is a loose and internally fluid coalition (philosophical and empirical) comprising Dynamical, Embodied, Extended, Distributed, and Situated (DEEDS) theories of cognition. Gilbert Ryle – DEEDS’ anglophonic masthead [1] – supposedly exorcised the Cartesian propensity to postulate mind as an apparition...

In a typical book review, I would look for and examine what is new about a particular thinker’s idea or presentation. However, as I read Th e Cambridge Companion to Dewey I fi nd that I cannot and should not use the same criteria for evaluation. I pick up a Cambridge Companion when I need an introduction or a refresher on material—not when I need to see what the cutting-edge scholarship is. Th ...