John Dewey

by Richard Pring

Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as 'generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America'. This honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of meaning, through which so many baffling philosophical problems were claimed to have been solved - as well as educational ones. It is in connection with his educational ideas, however, that Dewey became either famous or infamous. In the United States...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005SN5LDU
• ISBN13: 9781472518774
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"