One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of “finding out just what education is.” Reading this lecture in the ...

This collection of six original essays, written over a period of several years, brings together Philip Jackson’s reflections and insights on the practice of teaching. He ...

Since 1979, when Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature appeared, there has been a flood of new scholarship on the philosophy of John Dewey. Surprisingly, little ...

Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in the late 20th century has been the extraordinary renaissance of pragmatism, marked most notably by the ...

The 12 original essays included here locate Dewey's major works within their historical context and present a timely re-evaluation of each of the major areas of his broad ...

This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions ranging from dissertations by Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to examples of ...

Art is shown to be integral to any life and an essential aspect of humanity in this original translation from Italian of the philosopher Benedetto Croce's (1866-1952 ...