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  Dewey Photo   The Dewey Center is involved in many events to celebrate John Dewey's 150th Anniversary. Watch this page for upcoming announcements.


   "Acquisition of skill, possession of knowledge, attainment of culture are not ends: they are marks of growth and means to its continuing.
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The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, edited by Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-1991), MW 12:186.
 

  Dewey Center Calendar  
  Date Location Description  
June 15 - 25, 2011 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Director will lecture on American Philosophy as a Fullbright Specialist.
  September 28 - 30, 2011 Cordoba, Argentina Second International Pragmatist Colloquium  
  October 27 - 28, 2011 Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania Cha(lle)nging Democracy Conference  
  January, 2012 Mexico City John Dewey in Mexico Conference  
         
 

The director of The Center for Dewey Studies, Larry A. Hickman, frequently presents at various philosophical conferences and forums as a form of outreach for the Dewey Center.  Below are a few of the more recent presentations as well as a .pdf chronicling Hickman's travels since September 1993.

“John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies.” Tenth East-West Philosophers’ Conference, East-West Center, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 18, 2011.

“Context and Quantification in Education, East and West.” Depaul University, Chicago, Illinois, March 26, 2011.

“Genuine Concepts in John Dewey’s Educational Philosophy.” 40th Annual Powell Lecture Series, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, March 15, 2011.

“Secularism, Secularization, and John Dewey: Post-Modernism without Nihilism.” 40th Annual Powell Lecture Series, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, March 14, 2011.

“Pragmatic Technology as a Path to Sustainability.” Denison University, Granville, Ohio, February 4, 2011.

“ Secularization, Secularism, and John Dewey’s Philosophy of Religion.” Taipei Municipal Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 13, 2010.

“How Learners Form Genuine Concepts: Implications for Life Education.” National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, November 11, 2010.

“American Pragmatism.” A series of five lectures at the Department of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 15-25, 2010.

“The Unresolved Dualism of Juergen Habermas.” Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, October 26, 2010.

“Revisiting Dewey’s Common Faith.” Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, July 29, 2010.

“A New Direction for Philosophy: John Dewey’s Class Lectures.” Central European Pragmatist Forum, Cadiz, Spain, May 25, 2010.

“Bernstein between Habermas and Rorty: A Deweyan Reconstruction.” International Symposium on the Social Philosophy of Richard Bernstein, Toledo, Spain, May 21, 2010.

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