John Dewey

Call for Papers: 2024 Workshop on John Dewey, Race, and Colonialism at the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Deadline: May 17, 2024.

https://deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/conference.php

Just one month to go until our inaugural conference, John Dewey and His Legacy for Education, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale on Oct 12-14. If you've been on the fence about attending, today is a great day to register and make your travel plans for this interdisciplinary, international conference with more than 80 presenters from around the world. See more at the link below.

We are still looking for session chairs for the conference! Please help us out by emailing [email protected] with a list of the panels that you're interested in chairing.

Attendees and session chairs must register for the conference. Please register for the conference before Oct 1. There is a virtual attendee option that will allow you to virtually attend the remote panels as well as all the plenary panels.

https://deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/conference.php

In Fall 2023, the Center for Dewey Studies Reading Group will focus on Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology (1922). Email [email protected] to join.

According to Murray G. Murphey's introduction to the critical edition, this is the "work in which Dewey sought to make explicit the social character of his psychology and philosophy—something which had long been evident but never so clearly spelled out."

Human Nature and Conduct is also a key statement of his naturalism in the middle period, and develops his inquiry-oriented ethical theory, grounded in his naturalistic social psychology.

ETA: Our meetings this fall will continue to be hybrid.

Reminder: Deadline for the Center for Dewey Studies conference, John Dewey and His Legacy on Education is Monday, May 15, 2023 (by 11:59pm CDT). We're excited to receive your proposals!

Abstracts for traditional talks should be ≤500 words. For flash talks, ≤150 words. Panel proposals, 500-word abstract plus 1-2 page proposal. Bibliography is counted separately.

Excited about Dewey's philosophy but not sure you have anything for the conference theme? Remember what Dewey said: "Philosophy may be defined as the general theory of education; the theory of which education is the corresponding art or practice."

2023 Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU Join us in celebrating the reopening of the Center for Dewey Studies with an international conference on John Dewey’s legacy!

Happy Star Wars Day from the Center for Dewey Studies! May the Force (of Democracy) be with you!

In 1930, Nature published a review of Dewey's Experience & Nature. It was not a very positive review! Still, how many books of philosophy get reviewed by Nature these days?

2023 Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU Join us in celebrating the reopening of the Center for Dewey Studies with an international conference on John Dewey’s legacy!

Projects | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU NEW! The Center for Dewey Studies is happy to announce the publication of the Comprehensive Edition of The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1858-2011 edited by Larry Hickman, via InteLex Past Masters. This edition includes everything from the previous edition, plus 1,240 new items, bringing the total d...

This promises to be an outstanding conference!

CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
Deadline May 15, 2023 - Conference Oct 12-14, 2023
Join us in celebrating the Grand Re-Opening of the Dewey Center with a conference honoring John Dewey's legacy in education! We are accepting proposals for panels and talks from students and scholars. We hope to see you in Carbondale!
For more information: https://deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/conference.php

Call for Proposals / Call for Abstracts: John Dewey and His Legacy for Education, October 12-14, 2023
Deadline: May 15, 2023

2023 Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU Join us in celebrating the reopening of the Center for Dewey Studies with an international conference on John Dewey’s legacy!

"If experience actually presents esthetic and moral traits, then these traits may also be supposed to reach down into nature, and to testify to something that belongs to nature as truly as does the mechanical structure attributed to it in physical science. To rule out that possibility by some general reasoning is to forget that the very meaning and purport of empirical method is that things are to be studied on their own account, so as to find out what is revealed when they are experienced. The traits possessed by the subject-matters of experience are as genuine as the characteristics of sun and electron. They are found, experienced, and are not to be shoved out of being by some trick of logic. When found, their ideal qualities are as relevant to the philosophic theory of nature as are the traits found by physical inquiry." -- John Dewey, Experience and Nature (LW 1: 13-14)

The work of the Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Matthew J Brown, will be celebrated at this conference in Dallas. Deadline for abstracts is March 1.

Save the Date!

John Dewey and His Legacy for Education (International Conference)

October 12-14, 2023 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Virtual conference tomorrow, on the 100th annivarsary of John Dewey 's Human Nature and Conduct, December 9, 2022. Free to all!

John Dewey was born on this date in 1859.

He died in 1952, age 93.