Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 21h"Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity." – John Dewey, Individualism, Old and New, (1930, LW 5:68) 031
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The first item in our Fall issue is a note from HOPOS Editor Matthew J. Brown, looking back on the first 16 years of the HOPOS Journal. He talks about the founding of the journal, some of the early articles, and how far we’ve come. Brown also discusses some exciting upcoming changes to the journal. 01912
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 28/09/2026“If it takes a thief to catch a thief, it may fairly be presumed that it takes a philosopher to catch a philosopher.” – John Dewey, “Why Study Philosophy?” (1893, EW 4:62) 000
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 25/09/2026“Only dogmatism can suppose that serious moral conflict is between something clearly bad and something known to be good, and that uncertainty lies wholly in the will of the one choosing. 131
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 23/09/2026"The unrest, impatience, irritation and hurry that are so marked in American life are inevitable accompaniments of a situation in which individuals do not find support and contentment in the fact that they are sustaining and sustained members of a social whole. 120
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 21/09/2026"Realization that honest and industrious pursuit of a calling or business will not guarantee any stable level of life lessens respect for work and stirs large numbers to take a chance of some adventitious way of getting the wealth that will make security possible: 120
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 18/09/2026"One cannot look into the inner consciousness of his fellows, but if there is any general degree of inner contentment on the part of those who form our pecuniary oligarchy, the evidence is sadly lacking." – John Dewey, Individualism, Old and New (1930, LW 5:67) 0136
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16/09/2026Congratulations to our new 2026-2027 Center for Dewey Studies Essay Award winners: Stephen Houchins, Harrison Jackson Jr., Molly Kelleher, and Andrii Leonov. The award will help fund their research projects related to the work and thought of John Dewey. 151
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 14/09/2026“Want and scarcity in an age of plenty for all is the contradiction that now stares us in the face.” – John Dewey, “What Keeps Funds Away from Purchasers” (1934, LW 9:81) 030
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 09/09/2026“The magic of eating a hair of the dog which bit you in order to cure hydrophobia is as nothing to the magic involved in the belief that those who have privilege and power will remedy the breakdown they have created. 130
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 07/09/2026“Where fears abound, courageous and robust individuality is undermined. The vast development of technological resources that might bring security in its train has actually brought a new mode of insecurity, as mechanization displaces labor.” – John Dewey, Individualism, Old and New (1930, LW 5:68) 0199
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 26/08/2026The Dewey Studies Reading Group this semester will focus on several of John Dewey’s political essays between 1903-1925 as well as Dewey’s exchange with Walter Lippmann prior to the publication of The Public and Its Problems (1927). Meetings are on Fridays at 1pm Central Time. 131
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/08/2026This summer, Director Matthew J. Brown traveled to Bologna, Italy to celebrate the inauguration of a new Center for Dewey Studies with a conference on Values and Technology: Deweyan Perspectives. 110
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 17/07/2026New 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 043
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesCenter for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 12/06/2026We'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.comschooljobs.comProgram AssistantSalary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.The primary responsibility of this position is to advance the research, teaching, publ... 178
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 12/06/2026We'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.comschooljobs.comProgram AssistantSalary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.The primary responsibility of this position is to advance the research, teaching, publ... 178
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesMatthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · 06/06/2026One 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.doi.org‘It’s up to the managers’: Strategies engineering students use to avoid discussing ethicsStudies 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... 2236
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Routledge 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...routledge.comThe Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After KantThe 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… 13220
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026For more information, details, and FAQ on HOPOS's move to Cambridge, follow this link: hopos.org/move-to-camb...hopos.orgMove to Cambridge University Press | HOPOS – The International Society for History of Philosophy of Science 053
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026We 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 22410
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 29/05/2026Today 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. #philskyyoutube.comJia 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... 022
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15/05/2026“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. 110
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 13/05/2026“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. 100
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 13/05/2026Join us now for the International Dewey Colloquium, on Ambedkar's Pragmatism. youtube.com/live/MDryb0s...youtube.comInternational Dewey Colloquium - A Discussion of Ambedkar's Pragmatism and the Ideals of DemocracyYouTube video by Center for Dewey Studies 002
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 11/05/2026Reminder: 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 011
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 08/05/2026“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... 110
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 07/05/2026Text: 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 010
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 04/05/2026“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) 162
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 01/05/2026“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 131
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/04/2026Reminder: 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.zoom.us 110
Reposted by Center for Dewey StudiesMatthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · 24/04/2026This 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...blog.apaonline.orgWhy We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now: Neurophilosophy and AI | Blog of the APAThe more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus... 0113
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/04/2026“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. 110
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 22/04/2026Happy 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... 123
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 20/04/2026Join 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... 011
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 20/04/2026“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. 100
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 17/04/2026Recollections 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... 130
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15/04/2026“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... 110
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 13/04/2026“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... 101
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 10/04/2026If 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. 120
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 08/04/2026“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... 110
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 06/04/2026SIU 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 020
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 06/04/2026SIU 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 010
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 03/04/2026“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…” 120
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 02/04/2026"We live in a time of what is called disillusionment as to the power of ideas and ideals...To believe in mind as power even in the midst of a world which has been made what it is by thought devoted to physical matters, is...incredible naïveté." 120
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 31/03/2026“The more one takes into account what intelligence itself adds to the joy and dignity of life, the more one should feel grieved at a situation in which the exercise and joy of reason are limited to a narrow, closed and technical social group.” 151
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/03/2026SIU 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 in-person event at: forms.microsoft.com/r/4GhbXNBRgV 010
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/03/2026Now online: From the Argentina Dewey Center at Catholic University of Córdoba, “Deweyans from the South: Aesthetics, Political Theory, and Education,” a panel discussion featuring Laura Elizia Haubert, Livio Mattarollo, and Juan Manuel Saharrea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRkA4wE9txY 020
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 23/03/2026Now on YouTube! See Kenneth Stikkers lecture, “Max Scheler and John Dewey on ‘Value’ and ‘the Qualitative’." Link to Video: youtu.be/Nb7jTjFwKZc?si=kgJriGYyy-Y… Link to Center for Dewey Studies YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeVLukXw4s… 063
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 18/03/2026Today at 1pm Central, Siwen Yang’s Lunchtime Talk: "Why Is Scientific Knowledge a Form of Niche Construction? A Discussion Based on Dewey's Theory of Inquiry." Register to join us on Zoom: zoom.us/meeting/register/gRbLlAtRTZ… 001
Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16/03/2026This Wednesday at 1pm Central, Siwen Yang’s Lunchtime Talk: "Why Is Scientific Knowledge a Form of Niche Construction? A Discussion Based on Dewey's Theory of Inquiry." Register to join us on Zoom: zoom.us/meeting/register/gRbLlAtRTZ… 031