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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 1d

...a distinctive position as an immediate good, since beyond other goods it has power of replenishment and fructification. In it, apparent good and real good enormously coincide.”
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 1d

“[S]ince reflection is the instrumentality of securing freer and more enduring goods, reflection is a unique intrinsic good. Its instrumental efficacy determines it to be a candidate for...
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A black and white painting of John Dewey, with overlaid text reading: “It is easier to wean a miser from his hoard, than a man from his deeper opinions.” Citation: Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 303).

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 2d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 274). Join us October 16-18 at our Experience and Nature Centennial Conference for more.
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 2d

...to the production of new objects and dispositions which are in turn productive of further refinements and replenishments.”
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 2d

“Any activity that is productive of objects whose perception is an immediate good, and whose operation is a continual source of enjoyable perception of other events exhibits fineness of art. There are acts of all kinds that directly refresh and enlarge the spirit and that are instrumental...
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John Dewey posing artistically with overlaid text reading “All art is a process of making the world a different place in which to live, and involves a phase of protest and of compensatory response.” Citation: Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 272).

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 4d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 270). Learn more at the Experience and Nature Centennial Conference on the 16th-18th.
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Upcoming Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 4d

...nature, caprice expresses its inchoate initiations and deviations. Each in isolation is unnatural as well as inartistic, for nature is an intersection of spontaneity and necessity, the regular and the novel, the finished and the beginning.”
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 4d

“It is hardly worth while to oppose science and art sharply to one another, when the deficiencies and troubles of life are so evidently due to separation between art and blind routine and blind impulse. Routine exemplifies the uniformities and recurrences of...
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John Dewey standing at a desk with several books resting atop it. Behind the desk is a large painting of John Dewey seated in a comfortable chair with a book.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 8d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 234-235). Explore the nuances of Experience and Nature at our October 16-18 centennial conference.
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Upcoming Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 8d

...searching, methods that while congenial to some men in some respects, in many respects go against the human grain, so that they are adopted only after long discipline in a school of hard knocks.”
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 8d

“[E]mpirical facts indicate that not error but truth is the exception, the thing to be accounted for, and that the attainment of truth is the outcome of the development of complex and elaborate methods of... (1/3)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 9d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1925, LW 1: 226). Dive deeper into Experience and Nature at our October 16-18 centennial conference.
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 9d

from the ‘speech’ of parrot or a phonographic record. This alliance supplies language with the immediate qualitative ‘feel’ that marks off signs immediately from one another in existence. The same considerations define the ‘subconscious’ of human thinking."
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 9d

“Meanings do not come into being without language, and language implies two selves involved in a conjoint or shared undertaking.... Otherwise it becomes a mechanical routine not differing...
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John Dewey seated next to his wife Alice Chipman Dewey at his 90th birthday party

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 11d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature. (1925, LW 1: 200). Join us at our conference in October Celebrating the centennial of Experience and Nature.
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Upcoming Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 11d

...is a doctrine that springs, as so many philosophic errors have sprung, from a substantiation of eventual functions. The fallacy converts consequences of interaction of events into causes of the occurrence of these consequences.” (2/3)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 11d

“The distinction between physical, psycho-physical, and mental is thus one of levels of increasing complexity and intimacy of interaction among natural events. The idea that matter, life and mind represent separate kinds of Being... (1/3)

John Dewey seated on a comfortable chair with overlaid text reading “[Matter] is not itself an event or existence; the notion that while ‘mind’ denotes essence, ‘matter’ denotes existence is superstition.” Citation: John Dewey, Experience and Nature. (1925, LW 1: 201).

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature. (1925, LW 1: 198). Learn more at the Experience and Nature Centennial Conference this October.
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15d

...external things and of episodes past and to come. This state of things in which qualitatively different feelings are not just had but are significant of objective differences, is mind. Feelings are no longer just felt. They have and they make sense; record and prophesy.” (2/3)

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 15d

“[Mind] is an added property assumed by a feeling creature, when it reaches that organized interaction with other living creatures which is language, communication. Then the qualities of feeling become significant of objective differences in... (1/3)

John Dewey seated with two others in preparation for a radio broadcast for NBC's Section of Fine Arts in 1940

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16d

 Find out more about the talk and find links to participate on Zoom or YouTube at deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16d

Join us tomorrow at 12pm Noon for Dr. Joseph Urbas’s talk, "An Emersonian 'Deposit' in Dewey's Philosophy?  The Case of the Ethical Writings" in the Center for Dewey Studies (Morris Library Basement). We will have snacks and beverages available, and you are also welcome to bring your lunch. (1/2)

Upcoming Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16d

– John Dewey, Experience and Nature. (1925, LW 1: 179). Explore the nuances of Experience and Nature at our October centennial conference.
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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · 16d

...which are denominated selves. In some specifiable respects and for some specifiable consequences, these selves, capable of objective denotation just as are sticks, stones, and stars, assume the care and administration of certain objects and acts in experience.” (2/3)