John Dewey (1859–1952) was one of American pragmatism’s early founders, along with

Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, and arguably the most prominent American
intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century. Dewey’s educational theories and
experiments had a global reach, his psychological theories had a sizable influence in that
growing science, and his writings about democratic theory and practice deeply influenced
debates in academic and practical quarters for decades. In addition, Dewey developed
extensive and often systematic views in ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, aesthetics,
and philosophy of religion. Because Dewey typically took a genealogical approach that
couched his own view within the larger history of philosophy, one may also find a fully
developed metaphilosophy in his work.

John Dewey, (born October 20, 1859, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.—

died June 1, 1952, New York, New York), American philosopher and
educator who was a cofounder of the philosophical movement known
as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, an innovative
theorist of democracy, and a leader of the progressive movement
in education in the United States.