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John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
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culture · American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952) · philosopher · psychologist · pedagogue · professor · sociologist · trade unionist · aesthetician · teacher · writer · also John Dewey, Dewey
Born 20 October 1859 · Died 1 June 1952 · Q131805
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2026· 7 entries
Legacy obituary: Dewey Albert Lawrence Obituary (2026) - Ruffin, NC - Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory - Reidsville
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The News-Gazette: Search underway for driver of vehicle found in flooded Dewey ditch; Vermilion River 7 feet above flood level; parts of St. Joe inaccessible to school buses Monday - The News-Gazette
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OKW News: Downtown Dewey District Welcomes New Café and Refreshes a Piece of Poteau History
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Bartlesville Radio: Dewey Public Schools Celebrates Start of School Year
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MaxPreps: Dewey High School (OK) JV Volleyball
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The Berkshire Edge: Berkshires Culture Expression Salon, the last Sunday of every month at 7PM at Dewey Hall
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2008· 1 entry
“Pragmatism and nonscientific knowledge”
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2002· 1 entry
Ranked Dewey as the 93rd-most-cited psychologist of the 20th century
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1952· 6 entries
Died 1952-06-01.
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At his home in New York City after years of ill-health and was cremated the next day
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“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
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“We only think when we are confronted with a problem”
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“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.”
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“As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1951).
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1939· 1 entry
Dewey was elected President of the League for Industrial Democracy, an organization with the goal of educating college students about the labor movement
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1937· 1 entry
Which cleared Leon Trotsky of the charges made against him by Joseph Stalin, and marched for women's rights, among many other causes
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1935· 1 entry
Dewey, together with Albert Einstein and Alvin Johnson, became a member of the United States section of the International League for Academic Freedom, and in 1940, together with Horace Kallen, edited a series of articles
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1930· 3 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1930).
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Was professor of philosophy at Teachers College, Columbia University
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Was professor of philosophy at Teachers College at Columbia University and influenced Carl Rogers
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1929· 1 entry
“The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI”
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1927· 1 entry
At the age of 68; weakened by a case of malaria contracted during a trip to Turkey in 1924 and a heart attack during a trip to Mexico City in 1926, she died from cerebral thrombosis on July 13, 1927
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Carus Lectures (1925).
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1919· 2 entries
Just days before student demonstrators took to the streets of Peking to protest the decision of the Allies in Paris to cede the German-held territories in Shandong province to Japan
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Dewey and his wife traveled to Japan on sabbatical leave
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1905· 2 entries
“The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism”
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Became president of the American Philosophical Association
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1899· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of the American Psychological Association (1899–1899).
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Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association (A
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1896· 3 entries
“The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology”
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Reasons against the traditional stimulus-response understanding of the reflex arc in favor of a "circular" account in which what serves as "stimulus" and what as "response" depends on how one considers the situation a
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Is regarded as the first major work in the (Chicago) functionalist school of psychology
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1894· 2 entries
The strike became official, later gaining the support of the members of the American Railway Union, whose leader Eugene V
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Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago (1894–1904) where he developed his belief in Rational Empiricism, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy
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1888· 2 entries
“Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous.”
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While still at the University of Michigan, "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous
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1886· 1 entry
Shortly after Chipman graduated with her Ph
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1859· 1 entry
Born 1859-10-20.
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