William James, remarking in 1909on the differences among the three leading spokesmen for pragmatism--himself, F. C. S. Schiller, and John Dewey--said that Schiller's views were essentially "psychological," his own, "epistemological," whereas Dewey's "panorama is the widest of the three." The two main subjects of Dewey's essays at this time are also two of the most fundamental and persistent philosophical questions: the...