Becoming John Dewey

Thomas C. Dalton is Senior Research Associate with the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is co-author (with V. W. Bergenn) of Early Experience and the Brain: An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis, and co-editor (with Rand Evans) of Reflections in the Mirror of Psychology's Past: Understanding Prominence and the Dynamics of Intellectual Change and (with V. W. Bergenn) of Beyond Heredity and Environment: Myrtle McGraw and the Maturation Controversy. His scholarly research interests include historical studies of the developmental sciences, theoretical studies of consciousness, and the philosophy of mind.

• Preliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Originality in Social ContextPart 1. Sublime Reason and the Comforts of Doubt1. From Calvinism to Evolutionism2. Healing an "Inward Laceration"3. Experimentalist in the MakingPart 2. Rendezvous with the New York Avant Garde4. Contrasting Strategies of Educational Innovation5. Cultural Disillusionment6. The Evolution of Mind in NaturePart 3. The Transformational Potential of Consciousness in Art, Politics, and Science7. Post-Impressionism, Quantum Mechanics, and the Triumph of Phenomenal Experience8. Communities of Intelligence and the Politics of Spirit9. The Function of Judgment in Inquiry10. Locomotion as a Metaphor for MindPart 4. Naturalism Lost and Found11. Cultural Pragmatism and the Disappearance of Dewey's NaturalismConclusion: The Revival of Dewey's NaturalismNotesBibliographyIndex

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