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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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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The 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.

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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

Most conflicts of importance are conflicts between things which are or have been satisfying, not between good and evil.” – John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty (1929, LW 4: 212)

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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.

An older, suited John Dewey in a light sepia photo taken outdoors

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 23/09/2026

Only an acute maladjustment between individuals and the social conditions under which they live can account for such widespread pathological phenomena." – John Dewey, Individualism, Old and New (1930, LW 5:68)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 23/09/2026

They are evidence, psychologically, of abnormality, and it is as idle to seek for their explanation within the deliberate intent of individuals as it is futile to think that they can be got rid of by hortatory moral appeal.

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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

witness the orgies of the stock-market in recent days.” – John Dewey, Individualism, Old and New (1930, LW 5:68).

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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:

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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

... As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. The only remedy is new political action based on social interests and realities.” John Dewey, “The Need for a New Party” (1931, LW 6:163).

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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

To learn more about the reading group and how to join, visit deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event...

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Dewey Studies Reading Group | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

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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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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · 06/06/2026

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.

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‘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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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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...

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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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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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

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Move to Cambridge University Press | HOPOS – The International Society for History of Philosophy of Science

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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

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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 · 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.

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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 · 13/05/2026

Any philosophy which should penetrate and particulate our present social practice would find at work the forces which unify human intercourse. An intelligent and courageous philosophy of practice would devise means by which the operation of these forces would be extended and assured in the future.”

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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.

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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 · 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...

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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 · 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

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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 · 27/04/2026

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.

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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 · 24/04/2026

Then the politician goes on repeating the old slogans and cries and is baffled by failure to get the wonted reaction. Is this going to happen in connection with the demand for intense and unified motivation imposed by the war? There is an old and established technique of supplying motive in wartime

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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.

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