Author: Larry A. Hickman
Larry Hickman is Director of The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
John Dewey’s Spiritual Values
As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Dewey, we should recall that he was a deeply spiritual person, both personally and professionally. Dewey’s spirituality was not defined by organized religion. It was instead a part of his commitment to a philosophically informed version of naturalism. Dewey was an ardent opponent of …
Citizen Participation: More or Less?
Like many of the other tools in the toolbox of democratic societies, the value of citizen participation in political decision-making is best judged in terms of the consequences of its deployment in specific circumstances. In some cases, for example, with certain California ballot initiatives, it is arguable that citizen participation has resulted in hasty and …
Inquiry: A Core Concept of John Dewey’s Philosophy
Inquiry was one of the core concepts of John Dewey’s philosophy. A search of the new CD-ROM edition of Dewey’s Collected Works reveals that he used the term well over 2,000 times during his sev-enty-year writing career, which ended with his death in 1952. In books that he addressed primarily to teachers, such as How …
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