Introduction: Why Dialogue with Dewey Today? John Dewey was engaged, throughout his work, in the reconstruction of American democracy and education. Committed to that philosophy for and in action that is pragmatism, a philosophy for solving the problems of human beings, he addressed himself to what he saw as the crisis of democracy in twentieth-century America. In 1927, discussing the erosion o...

Given the serious social problems confronting Americans and others worldwide, the authors propose that Dewey’s 1932 challenge to teachers is worthy of reconsideration by educators at all levels. In times similar to our own, Dewey challenged teachers to cultivate students’ capacities to identify their happiness with what they can do to improve the conditions of others. At fi rst glance, his chal...

A Common Faith is arguably one of John Dewey’s least eff ective books. In it, he tries to persuade readers that the best of two epistemologically diff erent worlds can be reconciled in a common faith—one that employs the methods of science with a generously religious attitude. Possibly most of us today believe this cannot be done; that is, the two worlds will remain unreconciled. But perhaps, w...

Tras un breve repaso a la propuesta de una Lógica Empírica John Dewey, en que trazo sus similitudes con moderna Teoría Argumentación o Informal, examino el tipo postura naturalista defendida “Logic, The Theory of Inquiry” (1938), planteada primer lugar como naturalismo físico u orgánico más tarde se abre cultural social. Examino críticamente fusión “causas naturales” y “razones culturales” apro...