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Dewey Studies Reading Group - Every other Friday in Fall 2023 (see sidebar).

October 2024: Workshop on John Dewey, Race, and Colonialism

Recent Events

October 24, 2023: Dewey Dialogues Public Lecture, Alee Quick, "Journalism is democracy’s watchdog: That’s why we need news literacy" (Flyer)

October 12-14, 2023: Conference, John Dewey and His Legacy for Education.

March 21, 2023: Lunchtime Talk, Philipp Dorstewitz on “Digital disembodiment: Pragmatism, crypto anarchism and new participative relationships.” Flyer.

Dewey Center Reading Group

The Center for Dewey Studies hosts a Reading Group on works by and about John Dewey and related figures and topics. The meetings are hybrid, in person at the Center and via Zoom. Please email deweycenter@siu.edu if you would like to join the group and receive emails about future meetings.

In Fall 2023, we will be reading Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology (1922). Meetings will be on Fridays at Noon.

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." It 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.

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