How We Think: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How We Think, credited to John Dewey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of How We Think by John Dewey. Read in English by Linda Andrus A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the conviction that such is not the case; that the native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind. If these pages assist any to appreciate this kinship and to consider seriously how its recognition in educational practice would make for individual happiness and the reduction of social waste, ...” Excerpt From: John Dewey. “How We Think.” - Summary by Linda Andrus

Recording facts

• Recording title: How We Think
• Author credits: John Dewey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 8:54:27

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• education
• social science
• thinking

Track guide

1. 00 - PREFACE — 3:25
2. 01 - I. What is Thought? — 32:22
3. 02 - II. The Need For Training Thought — 35:41
4. 03 - III. Natural Resources in the Training of Thought — 36:41
5. 04 - IV. Social Conditions and the Training of Thought — 23:44
6. 05 - V. Training: The Psychological and the Logical — 28:40
7. 06 - VI. The Analysis of a Complete Act of Thought — 24:58
8. 07 - VII. Systematic Inference: Induction and Deduction — 50:13
9. 08 - VIII. Judgment: The Interpretation of Facts — 37:19
10. 09 - IX. Meaning: Or Conceptions and Understanding — 46:48
11. 10 - X. Concrete and Absract Thinking — 23:51
12. 11 - XI. Empirical and Scientific Thinking — 28:15
13. 12 - XII. Activity and the Training of Thought — 30:48
14. 13 - XIII. Language and the Training of Thought — 43:28
15. 14 - XIV. Observation and Information in the Training of Mind — 29:45
16. 15 - XV. The Recitation and the Training of Thought — 31:28
17. 16 - XVI. Some General Conclusions — 27:00

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