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John Dewey(1859 1952) was anAmerican philosopher, psychologistandeducational reformerwhose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy ofpragmatismand one of the founders offunctional psychology. He was a major representative ofprogressive educationandliberalism.In 1894 Dewey joined the newly foundedUniversity of Chicago(1894 1904) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy. His time at the University of Chicago resulted in four essays collectively entitledThought and its Subject-Matter, which was published with collected works from his colleagues at Chicago under the collective titleStudies in Logical Theory(1903). During that time Dewey also initiated theUniversity of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress(1899).In 1899, Dewey was elected president of theAmerican Psychological Association. From 1904 until his retirement in 1930 he was professor of philosophy at both Columbia Universityand Columbia University'sTeachers College.In 1905 he became president of theAmerican Philosophical Association. He was a longtime member of theAmerican Federation of Teachers.
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Table of contents
1PREFACE
2INTRODUCTION
3PART ONE. THE PLACE OF HABIT IN CONDUCT
4SECTION I: HABITS AS SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
5SECTION II: HABITS AND WILL
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6SECTION III: CHARACTER AND CONDUCT
7SECTION IV: CUSTOM AND HABIT
8SECTION V: CUSTOM AND MORALITY
9SECTION VI: HABIT AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
10PART TWO. THE PLACE OF IMPULSE IN CONDUCT
11SECTION I: IMPULSES AND CHANGE OF HABITS
12SECTION II: PLASTICITY OF IMPULSE
13SECTION III: CHANGING HUMAN NATURE
14SECTION IV: IMPULSE AND CONFLICT OF HABITS
15SECTION V: CLASSIFICATION OF INSTINCTS
16SECTION VI: NO SEPARATE INSTINCTS
17SECTION VII: IMPULSE AND THOUGHT
18PART THREE. THE PLACE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CONDUCT
19SECTION I: HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE
20SECTION II: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THINKING
21SECTION III: THE NATURE OF DELIBERATION
22SECTION IV: DELIBERATION AND CALCULATION
23SECTION V: THE UNIQUENESS OF GOOD
24SECTION VI: THE NATURE OF AIMS
25SECTION VII: THE NATURE OF PRINCIPLES
26SECTION VIII: DESIRE AND INTELLIGENCE
27SECTION IX: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE
28PART FOUR. CONCLUSION
29SECTION I: THE GOOD OF ACTIVITY
30SECTION II: MORALS ARE HUMAN
31SECTION III: WHAT IS FREEDOM?
32SECTION IV: MORALITY IS SOCIAL