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SOURCE: "Desire and Desirability: A Rejoinder to a Posthumous Reply by John Dewey," in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XCIII, No. 5, May, 1996, pp. 229-42.
In the following article, White recounts Dewey's response to White's book Social Thought in America, and White's answer to Dewey's charges.
Shortly after his ninetieth birthday, John Dewey1 acknowledged receiving from me two publications in which I had criticized some of his views in ethics: my Social Thought in America, and my "Value and Obligation in Dewey and Lewis," both published in 1949.2 Since I never heard anything more from Dewey about them, I surmised that he had probably not read them or that, if he had, he did not think it worth bothering to discuss my criticisms. I was therefore very surprised when I read in the final volume of his Collected Works that he had paid attention to them in a piece entitled...
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