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The Beginning of John Deweys Career in Philosophy
John Dewey began attendance to graduate school at John Hopinks University in 1882. There, he began studying logic with Charles S. Peirce, which he found too “mathematical” and did not continue studying. The history of philosophy that included George Sylvester Morris, and physiological and experimental psychology with Granville Stanley Hall. -
Deweys Change of view
Dewey’s reputation as a philosopher and psychologist grew at many universities, including the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. At Michigan, Dewey developed long-term professional relationships with James Tufts and George Mead. Dewey married Harriet Alice Chipman in 1886. She ended up having a significant influence on Dewey’s advocacy for women and he started to stray away from religious orthodoxy. -
John Dewey; Head of Philosophy Department
In 1894, President William Rainey Harper offered Dewey the position of head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago, which at that time included both Psychology and Pedagogy. Thrilled by the opportunity of putting these two different ideologies together, Dewey accepted the offer, and began to build the department by hiring G.H. Mead and J.R. Angell. Dewey, Tufts, Angell, Mead and several others developed “psychological functionalism”. -
Dewey”s Laboratory School
While living in Chicago, Dewey founded The Laboratory School, which provided a site to test his psychological and educational theories. His ground-breaking philosophical work on pragmatism was brought to life in the Laboratory School, where Dewey and others created a “community of inquiry” which, they “were all on a piece of research together.” In 1904 conflicts related to the Laboratory School lead to resigning his Chicago positions and move to the philosophy department at Columbia University