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John Dewey
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John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer, one of the founders of American pragmatism alongside Charles Sanders Peirce and William James. His philosophy of education held that learning occurs through experimental engagement with real problems rather than passive reception of fixed knowledge, and his account of inquiry treated knowledge as arising from an organism's active adaptation to problematic situations rather than from detached observation.
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Notable PublicationDemocracy and Education (1916) 1 TraditionAmerican pragmatism, instrumentalism 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Why this is disputed. Charles Sanders Peirce is usually credited as the originator of the pragmatic maxim; James and Dewey are considered co-founders who developed and popularized pragmatism as a movement, the same distinction already reflected in James's own debated founded-by row on this entity.
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: John Dewey, Section 5.1Quote, entry: John Dewey, Section 5.1
The native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind.
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: John Dewey, IntroductionQuote, entry: John Dewey, Introduction
John Dewey (1859-1952) was one of American pragmatism's early founders, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, and arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century.
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: John Dewey, Section 1 Biographical SketchQuote, entry: John Dewey, Section 1 Biographical Sketch
John Dewey died of pneumonia in his home in New York City on June 1, 1952.
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: John Dewey, Section 5 Philosophy of EducationQuote, entry: John Dewey, Section 5 Philosophy of Education
his 1916 magnum opus in education, Democracy and Education
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