John J. McDermott's anthology, The Philosophy of John Dewey, provides the best general selection available of the writings of America's most distinguished philosopher and social critic. This comprehensive collection, ideal for use in the classroom and indispensable for anyone interested in the wide scope of Dewey's thought and works, affords great insight into his role in the history of ideas and the basic integrity of his philosophy.

This edition combines in one book the two volumes previously published separately. Volume 1, "The Structure of Experience," contains essays on metaphysics, the logic of inquiry, the problem of knowledge, and value theory. In volume 2, "The Lived Experience," Dewey's writings on pedagogy, ethics, the aesthetics of the "live creature," politics, and the philosophy of culture are presented. McDermott has prefaced each essay with a helpful explanatory note and has written an excellent general introduction to the anthology.

Volume I: The Structure of Experience

Preface to the Phoenix Edition

Preface

Introduction

Notes

Chronology

Bibliography

Editor's Note on the Text

I. Historical Roots and Reflections

1. From Absolutism to Experimentalism

2. Kant and Philosophic Method

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy

5. The Development of American Pragmatism

6. The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy

II. Early Psychological Writings

7. The Psychological Standpoint

8. Psychology as Philosophic Method

9. The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology

10. The Psychology of Effort

III. The Experience of Knowing

11. "Consciousness" and Experience

12. The Experimental Theory of Knowledge

13. Experience and Objective Idealism

14. The Practical Character of Reality

15. The Pattern of Inquiry

IV. The Metaphysics of Experience

16. The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism

17. Experience and Philosophic Method

18. Existence as Precarious and Stable

19. Experience, Nature and Art

20. Existence, Value and Criticism

Volume II: The Lived Experience

V. The Culture of Inquiry

21. Escape from Peril

22. Philosophy's Search for the Immutable

23. Science and Society

24. Social Inquiry

VI. Experience is Pedagogical

25. Interest in Relation to the Training of the Will

26. My Pedagogic Creed

27. The School and Social Progress

28. The Child and the Curriculum

29. Education as Growth

30. Experience and Thinking

31. The Need of a Theory of Experience

32. Criteria of Experience

VII. Experience as Aesthetic

33. The Live Creature

34. The Live Creature and "Etherial Things"

35. Having an Experience

VIII. Experience as Problematic: Ethical, Religious, Political, and Social Dimensions

36. The Construction of Good

37. The Lost Individual

38. Toward a New Individualism

39. Search for the Great Community

40. Renascent Liberalism

41. The Problem of Freedom

42. Culture and Human Nature

43. The Human Abode and the Religious Function

44. Morality Is Social