The Collected Works of John Dewey v. 4; 1929, The Quest for Certainty: The Later Works, 1925-1953

This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey’s The Quest for Cer tainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures deliv ered April-May 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as a criti cism of philosophy as attempting to at tain theoretical certainty. In the Philo sophical 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.