Human Nature and Conduct
An Introduction to Social Psychology

John Dewey's Ethical Naturalism Together with Charles Peirce, William James, and Josiah Royce, John Dewey forms part of an outpouring of American thought in the early 20th Century frequently called the "golden age of American philosophy". Peirce, James and Dewey founded and taught variations of philo......more

After revisiting this book in 2020, I wrote an essay called "(De)Liberation: John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct in the 21st Century." It was published as a three-part series by Science and Philosophy on Medium (see posts here: Introduction and Part One, Parts Two and Three, and Conclusion). I also......more

This book came recommended by Steven Jackson when he visited UMD last year. I'm a fan of Jackson's work on repair, and was curious about how his ideas connected back to Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct. I've been slowly reading it, savoring each chapter on bus rides to work since then. It's a lovely......more

Another delicious text from Prof. Dewey, so delicious I could almost taste it as I read this example of early 20th-century psychology. However, although he says "let the evil of today be sufficient thereof", I find his text can be improved on somewhat as a new philosophy is called for which incorpor......more

If you don't mind wading through Dewey's dense vocabulary and sentence construction, Human Nature and Conduct provides an interesting critique of and alternative to the Platonic, Utilitarian, and religious conceptions of morality and progress.......more