The Oxford Handbook of Dewey

Steven Fesmire is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford University. He is President (2022-2024) of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and the author of Dewey (2015) in the Routledge Philosophers series, awarded a 2015 Choice "Outstanding Academic Title." He is also the author of John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics (2003), awarded a 2005 Choice "Outstanding Academic Title." He is currently completing a book titled Pragmatic Pluralism: Beyond Moral Fundamentalism, with another book titled Ecological Imagination waiting in the wings. He was a 2009 Fulbright Scholar at Kyoto University and Kobe University in Japan, 2017-18 Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College, and a 2016 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. His public philosophy work has appeared in places such as Salon, Huffington Post, USA Today, Inside Higher Ed, The Conversation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Humanist, The Key Reporter, Education Week, Vermont Sunday Magazine, and Vermont Public Radio.

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Steven Fesmire

I. The Future of Philosophical Research
1. Dewey's Conception of Philosophy: Philip Kitcher,

II. Metaphysics
2. Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics: Thomas M. Alexander
3. Dewey, Whitehead, and Process Metaphysics: William T. Myers

III. Epistemology, Science, Language, and Mind
4. Pragmatist Portraits of Experimental Intelligence by Peirce, James, Dewey, and Others: Vincent Colapietro
5. Dewey, Rorty, and Brandom: The Challenges of Linguistic Neopragmatism: David Hildebrand
6. Pragmatist Innovations, Actual and Proposed: Dewey, Peirce, and the Pittsburgh School: Joseph Margolis
7. Dewey and Anti-Representationalism: Peter Godfrey-Smith

IV. Ethics, Law, and the Starting Point
8. Dewey's Radical Conception of Moral Cognition: Mark Johnson
9. Dewey on the Authority and Legitimacy of Law: Cheryl Misak
10. Beyond Moral Fundamentalism: Dewey's Pragmatic Pluralism in Ethics and Politics: Steven Fesmire
11. The Starting Point of Dewey's Ethics and Sociopolitical Philosophy: Gregory F. Pappas

V. Social and Political Philosophy, Race, and Feminist Philosophy
12. Dewey and Du Bois on Race and Colonialism: Shannon Sullivan
13. Dewey and Pragmatist Feminist Philosophy: Lisa Heldke
14. Dewey's Pragmatic Politics: Power, Limits, and Realism About Democracy as a Way of Life, John J. Stuhr
15. Dewey, Addams, and Design Thinking: Pragmatist Feminist Innovation for Democratic Change, Judy D. Whipps

VI. Philosophy of Education
16. Dewey and the Quest for Certainty in Education, Nel Noddings
17. Derridean Poststructuralism, Deweyan Pragmatism, and Education, Jim Garrison
18. Dewey, the Ethics of Democracy, and the Challenge of Social Inclusion in Education, Maura Striano
19. Dewey and Higher Education, Leonard J. Waks
20. Dewey, Aesthetic Experience, and Education for Humanity: Andrea English and Christine Doddington

VII. Aesthetics
21. Dewey's Art as Experience in the Landscape of Twenty-first Century Aesthetics: Casey Haskins
22. Dewey, Adorno, and the Purpose of Art: Espen Hammer

VIII. Instrumental Logic, Philosophy of Technology, and the Unfinished Project of Modernity
23. Dewey, Pragmatism, Technology: Larry A. Hickman
24. Dewey's Chicago-Functionalist Conception of Logic: F. Thomas Burke
25. Dewey, Habermas, and the Unfinished Project of Modernity in Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy: Phillip Deen

IX. Dewey in Cross-Cultural Dialogue
26. Dewey and Confucian Philosophy: Roger Ames
27. Two-Way Internationalization: Education, Translation, and Transformation in Dewey and Cavell: Naoko Saito
28. Experimental Democracy for China: Dewey's Method: Sor-hoon Tan

X. The American Philosophical Tradition, the Social Sciences, and Religion
29. John Dewey's Debt to William James: James Campbell
30. Mead, Dewey, and Their Influence in the Social Sciences: Daniel R. Huebner
31. Idealism and Religion in Dewey's Philosophy: Randall E. Auxier and John R. Shook
32. Philosophy and the Mirror of Culture: On the Future and Function of Dewey Scholarship: Erin McKenna and Scott Pratt

XI. Public Philosophy and Practical Ethics
33. Dewey and Public Philosophy: Noëlle McAfee
34. Dewey and Environmental Philosophy: Paul B. Thompson and Zachary Piso
35. Dewey and Bioethics: D. Micah Hester