John Dewey, less broadly than James but more broadly than Peirce, held that inquiry, whether scientific, technical, sociological, philosophical or cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and / or refute proposed truths.

Schultz now proposed to murder Dewey.

Dr. Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, and the founder of the Lake Placid Club, proposed that Lake Stearns change its name to Lake Placid.

After Dewey wrote to Boyer to determine if he was still interested in receiving American immigrants, Boyer proposed that Haiti would seek blacks exclusively from the United States.

Kohlberg proposed a form of “ Socratic ” moral education and reaffirmed Dewey ’ s idea that development should be the aim of education.

John Dewey, less broadly than William James but much more broadly than Charles Peirce, held that inquiry, whether scientific, technical, sociological, philosophical or cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and / or refute proposed truths.

The report was locked away after his death, but later appropriated by Col. Dewey Novac, a move aimed at gaining public support by associating himself with Adroc Thurston, despite Dewey Novac's true aims being directly opposite to the aims of co-existence proposed by the original Ageha Plan.

In September 2010, Orrick announced it had entered preliminary merger talks with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld But just six days later, the two firms announced the talks had been aborted, making the proposed union the latest in a series of failed merger attempts by Orrick, including dalliances with Coudert Brothers, Cooley, Venture Law Group, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, Dewey Ballantine and SJ Berwin.

While Carnegie provided the institutions where librarianship as a profession blossomed, it was Melvil Dewey who was a primary force in establishing the professionalization of librarians and library education in the US.

Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing " historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity " of figures of international standing.

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

Dewey was responsible for all revisions until his death in 1931.

A designation number, such as Dewey 16 for the 16th edition, is given for each revision.

Most libraries create a separate fiction section to allow shelving in a more generalized fashion than Dewey provides for, or to avoid the space that would be taken up in the 800s, or simply to allow readers to find preferred authors by alphabetical order of surname.

The structure of the schedules is such that subjects close to each other in a dictionary catalog are dispersed in the Dewey schedules ( for example, architecture of Chicago quite separate from geography of Chicago ).

* Full text of A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library ( Dewey Decimal Classification ) ( 1876 ) from Project Gutenberg

John Dewey, a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904, set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms.

To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself ; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities ; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently ” ( Dewey, 1897, Para.

To repress this process and attempt to “ substitute the adult for the child ” ( Dewey, 1897, para.

In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for prosecution.

However, by the time of the 1948 election, he had become disillusioned with Harry S. Truman, and voted for Thomas E. Dewey, his " first non-Democratic vote ".

Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics.

Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt.

After two years as a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania and one teaching elementary school in the small town of Charlotte Vermont, Dewey decided that he was unsuited for employment in primary or secondary education.

During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress ( 1899 ).

It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U. S. and several other countries ; for example, Australia and Taiwan, ROC Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the older Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ).

Indeed, the Taipei public library in ROC uses Dewey for English-language books.

Most classification systems like the Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ) and Library of Congress classification also add a cutter number to each work which adds a code for the author of the work.

A US newspaper reported that an alleged gang member of Juggalo Rydas, Dewey W. Dixon, " will be serving a mandatory 15-year prison sentence for shooting up an apartment with a Mac-10 " in September 2008.

Rock music entered the mainstream during the 1950s because of controversial white DJs such as Dewey Phillips, Alan Freed, Dick Clark and Wolfman Jack with an appreciation for black music.

On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes ' holding company, Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The three leading candidates for the 1940 Republican nomination were all isolationists to varying degrees: Senators Robert Taft of Ohio and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Thomas E. Dewey, the " gangbusting " District Attorney from New York.

The American philosopher and educator John Dewey became impressed with the Alexander technique after his headaches, neck pains, blurred vision, and stress symptoms largely improved during the time he used Alexander's advice to change his posture.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

At Columbia, Dewey worked with other educators such as Charles Eliot and Abraham Flexner to help bring progressivism into the mainstream of American education.

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.

His parents selected his middle name in honor of Spanish – American War hero George Dewey.

* 1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher and theorist ( b. 1859 )

In the 1920s, as modern journalism was just taking form, writer Walter Lippmann and American philosopher John Dewey debated over the role of journalism in a democracy.

* 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral ( b. 1837 )

John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952 ) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

In 1899, Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

The American Library Association was formed, as well as The American Library Journal, Melvil Dewey published his decimal based system of classification, and the United States Bureau of Education published its report, " Public libraries in the United States of America ; their history, condition, and management.

* 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American presidential candidate ( b. 1902 )

* 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician ( d. 1971 )

Miles Dewey Davis III ( May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991 ) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois.

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

* December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification ( b. 1851 )

** A. Peter Dewey, first American casualty in Vietnam

* October 20 – John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist, and educator ( d. 1952 )

* March 24 – Thomas Dewey, American politician ( d. 1971 )

* December 10 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification ( d. 1931 )

( Psychologists Gary Brucato Jr. and John D. Hogan later questioned this claim, noting that John Dewey had appeared on an American stamp in 1968 ( 17 years earlier ).