Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture

This year, 2001, marks the fortieth anniversary of what at its inception in 1961 was called the “Co-operative Research on Dewey Publications” and now, since 1971, the Center for Dewey Studies. In 1961, just nine years after Dewey’s death, when Jo Ann Boydston and George E. Axtelle began work on what they envisioned as a “Dewey concordance” they found that the situation was a mess: only a few of his major books were in print, and the ones that were available were paperback reprints.