Social Inquiry: Jane Addams & John Dewey

Jane Addams

Discussion:

"Charitable Effort" –  Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics (University of Illinois Press, 2002), Chapter 1, pp. 11-34. 

"A Modern Lear" –  The Social Thought of Jane Addams, edited by Christopher Lasch (Irvington, 1982), pp.105-123, or The Jane Addams Reader, edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain (Basic Books, 2002), pp. 163-176.

"A Function of the Social Settlement" – The Social Thought of Jane Addams, edited by Christopher Lasch (Irvington, 1982), pp. 183-199, or Jane Addams on Education, edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (Teachers College Press, 1985), pp. 74-97.  (There are omissions in both.)

Background:

"A Decade of Economic Discussion" & "Pioneer Labor Legislation in Illinois" – Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapters 9-10.

Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Introduction to Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics (University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. ix-xxxviii. 

Charlene Haddock Seigfried, "Socializing Democracy: Jane Addams and John Dewey," Philosophy of the Social Sciences  29:2 (June, 1999), pp. 207-230.

John Dewey

Discussion:

"Social Inquiry" – John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Chapter 24 (The Later Works, Volume 12, Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), pp. 481-505.

"Contribution to Democracy in a World of Tensions: A Symposium prepared by UNESCO [edited by Richard McKeon & Stein Rokkan, 1951]," in John Dewey, The Later Works, Volume 16 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), pp. 399-406.

"Does Reality Possess Practical Character?" – John Dewey, The Middle Works, Volume 4 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1977), pp. 125-142.

Background:

"The Pattern of Inquiry" – John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Chapter 6 (The Later Works, Volume 12, Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), pp. 105-122.

"The Democratic State" & "Search for the Great Community" – John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 3 & 5 (The Later Works, Volume 2, Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), pp. 282-303, & 325-350, or John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, 1954), pp. 75-109, & 143-184.

Hans Seigfried, "Human Rights, Ends-in-View, and Controlled Inquiry: A Response to Paul Chevigny's Dialogue Rights," in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12:3 (1998), pp. 173-180.

Hans Seigfried, "Dewey's Logical Forms," in Dewey's Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations, edited by F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester, & Robert T. Talisse (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), pp. 180-201.