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John Dewey

  • Birth

    Born to Lucina and Archibald Dewey in Burlington, VT.
  • Graduated from University of Vermont

    graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont
  • Graduated with a doctorates from John Hopkins University

    doctorate in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University
  • Began teaching philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan

    Upon graduation, Dewey started teaching philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan.
  • Joined the faculty of philosophy at the University of Chicago

    Upon study child psychology it allowed Dewey to develop a philosophy of education and then he joined UC. This ultimately leads him to bring light to progressive education ( learning by doing) and pragmatism (reality must be experienced).
  • Left Chicago for New York

    Dewey left Chicago to attend Colombia University in New York, where he spent writing the text “Experience and Nature”
  • "The Knowledge Experience and Its Relationships" was published

    "The Knowledge Experience and Its Relationships"
  • “Beliefs and Realities“ was published

    Beliefs and Realities
    https://youtu.be/CJZYxWiolPQ
  • "The Problem of Truth. III" was published

    "The Problem of Truth. III"
  • Period: to

    Goes abroad to China

    Dewey spends personal and professional time in various cities in China. More than 20 texts were published throughout this time.
  • The Quest for Certainty was published

    Arguably John Dewey’s most famous text, he delivered it by lecture at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He explains how rationalistic and empirical methods are more reasonable to humans when acted upon. He goes on explaining how the scientific method is the best tool in the spiritual world and real world. As in the spiritual world one would believe in something that they want to believe and is not actual factual.
  • Death

    Dies of pneumonia