Boston Personalism

In this review essay of Walter Feinberg's new book, Dewey and Education, the reconstruction of philosophers for our present purposes is explored, as well as Feinberg’s criticisms of Deweyan “optimism” in context of his own social imaginary.

Thank you for coming to my talk today. Here, at the Black Male Summit Conference, I am unusually placed as a philosopher among many people of our wonderful and diverse community. There are many scholars and experts, and many talks,

This article recovers the roles of Charles Sanders Peirce and Josiah Royce, exponents of American Pragmatism, as resources for understanding the philosophic outlook of King and its roots in American (Boston) Personalism.