The Later Works of John Dewey Volume 4 1925 - 1953: 1929: The Quest for Certainty (Volume 4) (Collected Works of John Dewey)

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This volume provides an authoritative edition of Deweys The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures delivered AprilMay 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook Dewey described this work as a criticism of philosophy as attempting to attain theoretical certainty. In the Philosophical Review Max C. Otto later elaborated: Mr. Dewey wanted so far as lay in his power to crumble into dust once and for all the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition.