Dewey, John (1859-1952)

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Jane Addams to Vida Dutton Scudder, April 25, 1900

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 30, 1902

The Humanizing Tendency of Industrial Education, May, 1904

Jane Addams to James Hayden Tufts, June 3, 1904

Jane Addams to Mary Eliza McDowell, July 26, 1904

Eulogy for Gordon Dewey, September-October 1904 (draft)

Eulogy of Gordon Dewey, September-October 1904

Eulogy for Gordon Dewey, [November 1904]

Address to the Chicago Federation of Labor, February 11, 1905

List of Professors to Receive Newer Ideals of Peace, January 1907

Discuss Negroes Yearly, June 2, 1909

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: The Resources of the Immigrant, August 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, February 1911

Abigail Bass to Jane Addams, August 10, 1912

Special Report of the Progressive National Service (April-May 1913), July 3, 1913

Caroline Miles Hill to Jane Addams, July 30, 1913

Helen Marot to Jane Addams, December 28, 1915

Helen Marot to Jane Addams, January 23, 1916

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, August 3, 1917

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, August 4, 1917

The World's Food and World Politics, May 16, 1918

The World's Food and World Politics, May 18, 1918

Norman Hapgood to Salmon Oliver Levinson, December 1918

Norman Hapgood to Jane Addams, December 1918

Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead to John Dewey, October 1, 1904

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

John Dewey to Norman Hapgood, December 1918

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Birth Date

1859-10-20

Death Date

1952-06-01

Birthplace

Burlington, VT

Biographical Text

John Dewey was a philosopher who founded the philosophical movement known as pragmatism. He was a leader in functional psychology and a leader of the progressive education movement in the U.S. Dewey taught psychology and philosophy at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and Columbia. He developed a progressive philosophy of education and advocated strongly for democracy. Dewey believed schools and civil society were two things that needed much reconstruction in order to promote experimental intelligence.

Dewey was married to Alice Chipman. They had six children: Frederick, Evelyn, Morris, Gordon, Lucy, and Jane. After the death of his wife in 1927, he later married Roberta Lowitz Grant in 1946. They adopted two siblings, Lewis, changed to John Jr., and Shirley. Dewey died in 1952.

Dewey was good friends with Addams and they often visited each other while both were in Chicago. He gave talks at Hull-House and discussed a new periodical for philosophy with Addams.