The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 12: 1920; Essays, Miscellany, and Reconstruction in Philosophy Published During 1920

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A collection of all of Dewey's writingsfor 1920with the excep tion of Letters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.The nineteen items collected here, including his major work, Reconstruction in Philosophy, evolved in the main from Dewey's travel, touring, lecturing, and teaching in Japan and China. Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction to this volume that Recon struction in Philosophy is"a radical book . . . a pugnacious book by a gentle man." It is in this book that Dewey summarizes his version of pragmatism, then called Instrumentalism. For Dew ey, the pragmatist, it was people acting on the strength of in telligence modeled on science who could find true ideas, ones "we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify." Optimism pervades Reconstruction of Philosophy;in keeping with Dewey's...

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