John Dewey is one of the key pragmatists and probably the most important philosopher of education, and important in the intellectual formation of UGP-folk Nick, Chris, and Dan. Dewey differs from James in having a much more naturalistic, secularistic metaphysics and epistemology, and a correspondingly more rigid view of truth.

Dewey’s Pragmatism
Dewey called his brand of pragmatism “instrumentalism,” perhaps because he thought “pragmatism” didn’t sound stodgy enough…
TODO: Fill
h2. Dewey’s and Philosophy of Education
Dewey must be considered the final term in the classical triad of democratic philosophy of education: Plato, Rousseau, Dewey…
h2. Dewey’s rejection of religion
h2. Works
* Democracy and Education * Early Works, v.4 * Experience and Nature * A Common Faith
h2. Bibliography

• The American Evasion of Philosophy, Cornel West
  h2. See also:
  Pragmatism, PhilEd, Weil, Rorty, Quine