The Later Works of John Dewey 1925-1953, Volume 16: 1949-1952 Essays, Typescripts, and Knowing and the Known

Typescripts, essays, and an authoritative edition of Knowing and the known, Dewey's collaborative work with Arthur F. Bentley. In an illuminating introduction T. Z. Lavine defines the collaboration's three goals-the construction of a new language for behavioral inquiry, a critique of formal logicians, in defense of Dewey's Logic, and a critique of logical positivism. In Dewey's words: Largely due to Bentley, I've finally got the nerve inside of me to do what I should have done years ago. What is it to be a linguistic sign or name? and Values, valuations, and social facts, ' both written in 1945, are published here for the first time.