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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 02/10/2026

Next Friday, October 9, the International Dewey Center Network presents a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Dewey Studies Italy, on “Contemporary Italian Dewey Studies.” See more at deweycenter.siu.edu/center-infor...

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 30/09/2026

"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)

Older John Dewey suited and seated, looking concerned

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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)

Young John Dewey sporting a Hungarian mustache

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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.

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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.

A sepia-toned photo of an older, suited John Dewey next to a framed Mathew Brady's 1860 Cooper Union photograph of Abraham Lincoln

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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:

Sepia-toned photo of a suited John Dewey sitting in an armchair

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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)

Older John Dewey in a suit with glasses looking straight into the camera

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16/09/2026

Congratulations 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.

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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)

Dark sepia photograph of John Dewey in a suit looking to the right, seeming somber and preoccupied

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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.

John Dewey in a tuxedo seated next to two men in suits

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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)

John Dewey holding an axe about to chop wood

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 26/08/2026

The 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.

A sepia-toned photograph of an older John Dewey seated and focused while typing at his typewriter.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/08/2026

Dr. Brown would especially like to thank Gioia for being a wonderful host for his first trip to Italy!

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/08/2026

At the University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy, the Center is managed by Gioia Laura Iannilli and Matteo Santarelli. At the University of Rome - La Sapienza, Department of Philosophy, the Center is managed by Federico Lijoi and Sarin Marchetti.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/08/2026

The new Center is a joint project between the University of Bologna and Sapienza University of Rome with the support of the CDS at SIU. Dr. Brown was present for the ceremony installing the sign for the Bologna location with Gioia Iannilli and Giovanni Matteucci.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/08/2026

This 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.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 17/07/2026

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

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15/05/2026

Ask which candidate and which party will invigorate our democratic faith and which will sap that vigor? Ask if the cause of world peace will be served by men who are legionnaires in the cause of dictatorship?” -John Dewey, “American Youth, Beware of Wallace Bearing Gifts” (LW 15:246)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 13/05/2026

– John Dewey, German Philosophy and Politics (1915, MW 8: 203-204)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 11/05/2026

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

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 08/05/2026

and they are rapidly coming into being in large numbers all over the country—are showing how the ideal of equal opportunity for all is to be transmuted into reality.” – John Dewey, Schools of To-Morrow (1915, MW 8: 404)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 07/05/2026

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

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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)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 01/05/2026

that all the ailments and failures of the present school system—numerous and serious beyond a peradventure—are the result of subordination of the ‘humanities’ to the sciences.” – John Dewey, “The Revolt Against Science” (1945, LW 15: 188)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/04/2026

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 24/04/2026

Many newspapers and some public men do not seem capable of now responding in any other way than the old, and hence they are incapable of imagining people at large being moved in unprecedented ways.” – John Dewey, “What America Will Fight For” (1917, MW 10:271-272)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 22/04/2026

...since history does not occur in the void, includes the earth and the physical relatives of man.” -John Dewey, “Appendix 2: 1. Experience and Philosophic Method” (1925 LW 1:370)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 20/04/2026

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...

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 20/04/2026

Nor was any preparation made to meet the great problems which grew out of the vast new forces which have caught the world without warning.” – John Dewey, “World Anarchy or World Order?” (1945, LW 15:204)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 17/04/2026

and all-controlling responsibility and loyalty are to the freedom and objectivity of inquiry and communication for which universities are supposed to stand; and to which we, as constituents of the universities, are morally committed. -John Dewey, “Higher Learning and War” (1939, LW 14:273)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15/04/2026

indeed, by anything save a generous belief in their possibilities as human beings, a belief which brings with it the need for providing conditions which will enable these capacities to reach fulfilment.” -John Dewey, “Creative Democracy—The Task Before Us” (1939, LW 14:226)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 13/04/2026

...in service of a freedom which is cooperative and a cooperation which is voluntary.” -John Dewey, “Freedom and Culture” (1939, LW 13:187)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 10/04/2026

-John Dewey, "As an Example to Other Nations" (1928, LW 3:167)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 08/04/2026

...that it is innocent of imperialistic desires. It feels aggrieved when it is accused of any such purpose, then resentful, and is confusedly hurried into dangerous antagonisms, before it perceives what is happening.” – John Dewey, "Imperialism Is Easy" (1927, LW 3:158)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 06/04/2026

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

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 06/04/2026

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 03/04/2026

-John Dewey, "The Fruits of Nationalism" (1927, LW 3:157)

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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."

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 31/03/2026

–John Dewey, "The Development of American Pragmatism" (1925, LW 2:21)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/03/2026

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 in-person event at: forms.microsoft.com/r/4GhbXNBRgV

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/03/2026

Now 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

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 23/03/2026

Now 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…

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 18/03/2026

Today 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…

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16/03/2026

This 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…

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 06/03/2026

work space, library and office support, and a small stipend. Priority deadline for applications for next academic year is April 15, 2026. Learn more at deweycenter.siu.edu/visit/fellow... (2/2)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 05/03/2026

Reminder: The next International Dewey Colloquium will take place tomorrow. Dorit Barchana-Lorand will speak on "Advocacy for Art Education from a Deweyan Perspective" (with comments by Michał Wieczorek). (1/2)

The International Dewey Centers Network Presents A Joint Online Colloquium Series Dorit Barchana-Lorand, “Advocacy for Art Education from a Deweyan Perspective” with comments by Michał Wieczorek.
Representing the Irish Dewey Center at University College Dublin.

Dorit Barchana-Lorand is visiting UCD from Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. Her research has evolved from engaging Kant’s aesthetics to exploring the intersection of art, education, and society. Her newest book is Philosophical Questions in Art Education (2025).

Michał Wieczorek is an Ad Astra Fellow/Assistant Professor in the School of Education, UCD. He studies how new technologies impact the values, goals and practices of education.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 04/03/2026

individuals, but it is doing an injustice to itself for it is depriving itself of just that much of social capital.” – John Dewey, “Address to National Negro Conference.” (1909, MW 4: 157). (2/2)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 02/03/2026

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 02/03/2026

...democratic means some workable adjustment of the values, standards, and ends which are now in a state of conflict.” – John Dewey, “Anti-Naturalism in Extremis.” (1943, LW 15: 58-59). (2/2)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 27/02/2026

Now on YouTube! See Kimberly Harris’s Carus lecture, "Truth in Form: Du Bois's Aesthetic Epistemology and the Deweyan Social Imagination." Link to Video: youtu.be/RapW0fQ7rlE?...

W. E. B. Du Bois’s relationship to John Dewey illuminates Du Bois’s integration of aesthetics into social scientific inquiry. While Du Bois engaged Dewey’s view of truth as something that emerges through communal inquiry and contributes to the reconstruction of social life, he adapted this pragmatist framework to the particular demands of a racially stratified society. For Du Bois, truth required not only empirical rigor but also forms of expression capable of countering distortion and cultivating recognition where racial ideology blocked perception. Du Bois understood beauty as one such medium of truthful inquiry. The data visualizations he produced for the 1900 Paris Exposition shows how aesthetic form organized complexity, conferred dignity, and intervened against racist misrepresentation. In this sense, beauty functions for Du Bois as both a methodological and ethical instrument, enabling truth to accomplish the transformative work he believed it must do.

Dr. Kimberly Harris is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Corcoran Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, and author of The Truth of Race: The Philosophical Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois.

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