The Center for Dewey Studies announces a new Essay Award for SIU Students, funded by the generous donation of Professor Cho-Yee To. The award funds a research project with the aim of producing an essay on the life, work, or legacy of John Dewey. 1/2
Don’t forget to register for our Oct 17-19 workshop on John Dewey, Race, and Colonialism. You can attend online or in-person. 4/ deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event...
Don’t forget to register for our Oct 17-19 workshop on John Dewey, Race, and Colonialism. You can attend online or in-person. 4/ deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event...
They cannot be made good in practice except as they are extended to include the remaking of the social environment, economic, political, international.” – Dewey & Tufts, Ethics (1932, LW 7:260) 3/
race, color, with which one identifies oneself. The convictions that obtain in personal morality are negated on a large scale in collective conduct, and for this reason are weakened even in their strictly personal application. 2/
“National life is organized on the basis of exclusiveness and tends to generate suspicion, fear, often hatred, of other peoples. The world is divided into classes and races, and, in spite of acceptance of an opposed theory, the standards of valuation are based on the class... 1/
philosophy of race, postcolonial and decolonial theory, critical race studies and more. deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event... 2/2
Join us October 17-19 at the Center for Dewey Studies for a workshop on John Dewey, Race and Colonialism, where we’ll explore the connection of Dewey’s work to these topics in light of recently published primary sources from Dewey and contemporary research on Dewey, 1/2
“Too often we try to discuss race prejudice morally before we have dealt with it scientifically. That is, we justify or condemn it before we understand it and have analyzed into its causes.” – John Dewey, “Racial Prejudice and Friction” (1922, MW 13:242)
Equity demands that when one has to act in relation to others, no matter whether friends or strangers, fellow citizens or foreigners, one should have an equal and even measure of value as far as the interests of the others come into the reckoning.” – Dewey & Tufts, Ethics (1932, LW 7:257) 4/4