‎"DEWEY, JOHN.‎
‎Psychology.‎

‎New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887 8vo. In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Top and bottom of spine with wear and light overall soiling. Internally fine and clean.‎

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‎First edition of Dewey's landmark work - one of the earliest American original contributions to psychology - in which he reformulated psychology focusing more strongly on the social environment and on the activity of mind and behavior than the psychophysics-inspired physiological psychology. This work ""attempt to unite into a single system the neo-Hegelianism of Morris and the experimental psychology of Hall, or, as Dewey put it, to identify psychology with ""philosophic method."" During these years he moved toward a more liberal religious stance as well as toward what he would later term ""instrumentalism,"" the view that ideas are tools for resolving and reconstructing problematic situations."" (American national biography‎