SOURCE: A review of Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, in Ethics, Vol. L, No. 1, October, 1939, pp. 98-102.

In the following review of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Werkmeister declares Dewey's work as a philosophical landmark.

The publication of [Logic: The Theory of Inquiry] is most welcome and for at least two reasons. In the first place, it represents the final formulation of basic ideas which Dewey first stated some forty years ago in his Studies in Logical Theory and which he subsequently developed and modified somewhat in his Essays in Experimental Logic and the more recent little book on How We Think. In other words, the new book is important as a landmark in the development of the philosophical system of one of America's most influential thinkers; and it will be interesting to the future historians of philosophy who are concerned with the unfolding and the growth...