M Sept. 30 Cornel West, Ch. 3, "The Coming-of-Age of American Pragmatism: John Dewey", pp. 69-111

Summary of West on Dewey

W Oct. 2 Cornel West, continued

M Oct. 7

Dewey, "Education as Growth," pp. 93-101 in Goodman

Recommended: selections from Charlotte Siegfried, Pragmatism and Feminism, Ch. 4 ("Acknowledging Mutual Influences"), pp. 73-89 ("Jane Addams, Hull House, and John Dewey," pp. 73-82; "Two Unhappy Endings for Women at the University of Chicago," pp.82-89).

See also, on Hull House:

W Oct. 9

Dewey, "The Pattern of Inquiry," pp. 316-334 in Thayer

Outline

M Oct. 14

Rorty and Dewey

Read at least one of the following articles by Richard Rorty: from Consequences of Pragmatism (Minnesota, 1982):

• Ch. 3, "Overcoming the Tradition: Heidegger and Dewey"

• Ch. 4,"Professionalized Philosophy and Transcendentalist Culture"

• Ch. 5, "Dewey's Metaphysics"

• from Rorty and Pragmatism, ed. Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. (Vanderbilt, 1995): Richard Rorty, "Dewey between Hegel and Darwin," pp. 1-15

Recommended, also from Rorty and Pragmatism:

• Thelma Z. Lavine, "America and the Contestations of Modernity: Bentley, Dewey, Rorty", pp. 37-49; response by Rorty, pp. 50-53

• James Gouinlock, "What is the Legacy of Instrumentalism? Rorty's Interpretation of Dewey," pp. 72-90; response by Rorty, pp. 91-99.

W Oct. 16

New to the Syllabus

Hilary Putnam, "A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy," in Goodman, pp. 183-204.

M Oct. 21

Dewey's Philosophy of Art (Art as Experience)

Lecture: no reading assignment

Dewey Take-Home will be due in class Monday, October 28. (Note: New Due Date)

On-Line Course Resources

Off Campus

. An extremely valuable and comprehensive web site concerning John Dewey, his works, and works about him.

On Campus

cfreeland@uh.edu