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Jim Garrison

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Jim Garrison is a professor of philosophy of education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. His research interests focus on American pragmatism, and especially the philosophy of John Dewey.
 

 

Publications:

Papers

- Pappus, Gregory Fernando and Garrison, Jim (2005). Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Education in the Hispanic World: A Response. Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol., 24, 515-529.
- Garrison, Jim and Watson Bruce W. (2005). Food from Thought. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 4., 242-256. 
- Garrison, Jim (2005). Dewey on Metaphysics, Meaning Making, and Maps. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, 818-844. 
- Mousavi, Shabnam and Garrison, Jim (2003). Toward a Transactional Theory of Decision Making: Creative Rationality as Functional Coordination in Context Journal of Economic Methodology, June 2003, vol. 10, no. 2, 131-156.  
- Garrison, Jim (2001). An Introduction to Dewey's Theory of Functional "Trans-Action": An Alternative Paradigm for Activity Theory. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 8 (4), pp. 275-296.  
- Garrison, Jim (1999). John Dewey, Jacques Derrida, and the Metaphysics of Presence. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, 346-372. 
- Garrison, Jim (1995). Dewey's Philosophy and the Experience of Working: Labor, Tools and Language. Synthese, 105 (5) 87-114. 
- Garrison, James W. (1986). The Paradox of Indoctrination: A Solution. Synthese, 68 (2), 261 273.  

Books

- Garrison, Jim, ed. (Forthcoming ). Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey: Pragmatism and Interactive Constructivism in the Twenty-First Century. Albany, New York: State University Press of New York.
- Garrison, Jim Bredo, Eric, and Podeschi, Ronald, L. eds.
(2002) William James and Education. New York: Teachers
College Press. Reprinted in Chinese, 2005.
-  Larochelle, Marie, Bednarz, Nadine, and Garrison, Jim eds. (1998). Constructivism and Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-  Garrison, Jim (1997). Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. New York: Teachers College Press. 


 

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