New publication from the Dewey Center: Philosophy PhD candidate and former Center graduate assistant Andrii Leonov and Director Matthew Brown @thehangedman.com have published a new paper in EJPAP: "Reintroducing Dewey’s Re-Introduction to Experience and Nature" journals.openedition.org/ejpap/6587

We're hiring! Come join the Dewey Center as a Program Assistant. This is a full-time staff/admin position that assists Director Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com

We're hiring! Come join the Dewey Center as a Program Assistant. This is a full-time staff/admin position that assists Director Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com

One of the final publications from the NSF-funded engineering ethics & education project I headed (2013-2023) is finally out. This may not be our most important result, but it might be my favorite: "‘It’s up to the managers’: Strategies engineering students use to avoid discussing ethics" in JRI.

‘It’s up to the managers’: Strategies engineering students use to avoid discussing ethics

Studies show that engineering students are open to discussion of ethics; however, their overall understanding of it tends to be narrow and their engagement decreases over the course of their educat...

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Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (2026). Edited by Flavia Padovani, Adam Tamas Tuboly. The 50 essays in this Handbook cover perspectives, theories, movements, and traditions in the field. Link: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant

The History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range…

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For more information, details, and FAQ on HOPOS's move to Cambridge, follow this link: hopos.org/move-to-camb...

We are delighted to announce that HOPOS will become a publication of Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org as of 2027. All publications starting with vol. 17 will be open access. It is an honor to join the Cambridge family of journals. #HOPOS #HPS #philsky #philosophy #histsci

Today at 12:30pm Central Daylight Time (UTC-5), Jia Chen will give a lunchtime talk on "Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey" at the Center for Dewey Studies. Join us on the live stream via YouTube. #philsky

Jia Chen, Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey (Lunchtime Talk)

Jia Chen (Fudan University),“Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey” The notion of rhythm constitutes a pivotal position in Dewey’s later aesthetic writings. It can be read from several points of view: mat...

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“Before you make your irrevocable choice, examine the record and weigh the facts. Many of you will vote for the first time in November. It is a vote which will help shape our destinies because we are in the midst of one of the most burdensome crises in the history of humankind.

“It is futile to work for the negative end of peace unless we are committed to the positive ideal which it cloaks: Promoting the efficacy of human intercourse irrespective of class, racial, geographical and national limits.

Join us now for the International Dewey Colloquium, on Ambedkar's Pragmatism. youtube.com/live/MDryb0s...

International Dewey Colloquium - A Discussion of Ambedkar's Pragmatism and the Ideals of Democracy

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Reminder: Join us next Wednesday, May 13 at 1:00pm UTC, for the next International Dewey Centers Online Colloquium. Scott Stroud (UTAustin) & Danish Hamid (Nayanta Univ) discuss Ambedkar’s Pragmatism and the Ideals of Democracy. Register for the event on Zoom at tinyurl.com/DeweySPPU

“The democracy which proclaims equality of opportunity as its ideal requires an education in which learning and social application, ideas and practice, work and recognition of the meaning of what is done, are united from the beginning and for all. Schools such as we have discussed in this book...

Text: Join us next Wednesday, May 13 at 1:00pm UTC, for the next International Dewey Centers Online Colloquium. Scott Stroud (UTAustin) & Danish Hamid (Nayanta Univ) discuss Ambedkar’s Pragmatism and the Ideals of Democracy. Register for the event on Zoom at tinyurl.com/DeweySPPU

“An American philosophy of history must perforce be a philosophy for its future, a future in which freedom and fullness of human companionship is the aim, and intelligent cooperative experimentation the method.” -John Dewey, German Philosophy and Politics (1915, MW 8: 204)

“It would be a waste of time to argue that at the present time we are in the presence of a widespread revolt against science, for its presence is obvious in almost every field. In education it takes the form of setting the humanities up against the sciences, accompanied with the clamorous assertion

Reminder: This Wednesday, April 29 at 12:00pm Noon UTC. Ning Sun, representing the Fudan University Dewey Center in China, will give a talk on the divergence and possible convergence of classical pragmatism and new pragmatism as part of the International Dewey Center joint online colloquium series.

This thing I wrote about Paul Churchland and AI got picked up by the Blog of the APA. #philsky #philsci blog.apaonline.org/2026/04/21/w...

“The political leader perpetually forgets, however, that the state of public imagination and interest is in flux, and that the time comes when the cumulative effect of minor changes is so great that the people cannot be ‘handled’ after the old fashion.

Happy Earth Day from the Center for Dewey Studies! “When we say that experience is one point of approach to an account of the world in which we live, we mean then by experience something at least as wide and deep and full as all history on this earth, a history which...

Join us April 29 for the International Dewey Colloquium (Online) – Ning Sun (Fudan), "Thin World and Thick Experience: The Divergence and Possible Convergence of Classical Pragmatism and New Pragmatism." 12:00pm Noon UTC. Register on Zoom for this event: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“The tragedy of our time is that every person on earth actually belongs to a world unit without being a member of world-society. A society exists only where there is a common rule of law; only where there is the machinery of government which can compose or arbitrate the differences among men.

Recollections of the events of the last war forcibly remind us that our institutions of higher learning are not immune to war hysteria. They tell us that the atmosphere created by war enables interested parties to use this hysteria for their own ends, by means of suppression of free inquiry...

“To denounce Nazism for intolerance, cruelty and stimulation of hatred amounts to fostering insincerity if, in our personal relations to other persons, if, in our daily walk and conversation, we are moved by racial, color or other class prejudice...

“An American democracy can serve the world only as it demonstrates in the conduct of its own life the efficacy of plural, partial, and experimental methods in securing and maintaining an ever-increasing release of the powers of human nature...

If the nations... reserve... the right to use war in promoting their national ambitions...it is just as well to have no treaties which disguise the real situation and... lull lovers of peace into a wholly delusive notion of the prospects of peace.

“Imperialism is a result, not a purpose or plan. It can be prevented only by regulating the conditions out of which it proceeds. And one of the things which most stands in the way of taking regulatory measures is precisely the consciousness on the part of the public...

SIU Philosophy and the Center for Dewey Studies are Hosting a Watch Party for the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division online meeting! Register online for this exclusive in-person event at: https://forms.microsoft.com/r/4GhbXNBRgV

SIU Philosophy and the Center for Dewey Studies are Hosting a Watch Party for the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division online meeting! Register online for this exclusive in-person event at: forms.microsoft.com/r/4GhbXNBRgV

“Patriotism, National Honor, National Interests and National Sovereignty are the four foundation stones upon which the structure of the National State is erected. It is no wonder that the windows of such a building are closed to the light of heaven…”