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  • Chapter 6 - John Dewey, Humanism, and the Value of Science

  • from Part II - Inspirations
  • Edited by Anjan Chakravartty, University of Miami
  • Book:
    Science and Humanism
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 126-146
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    This chapter situates Dewey’s pragmatic humanism within a culture war in the 1910s and 1920s concerning what human nature is, and whether science should guide our efforts to address social ills and promote human flourishing. It argues that although he agreed with the literary humanists such as Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More that education needed to be reformed, Dewey insisted in Democracy and Education (1916) and Human Nature and Conduct (1922), among other works, that to make real social progress, we must cultivate a scientific disposition, a taste for excellence, and flexible cognitive habits to better equip future generations to meet the challenges of the changing conditions of human experience. The chapter concludes by supplementing Dewey with preliminary thoughts on the role that caring about others ought to play in helping us produce knowledge that can be used to promote the common good.