How We Think

By: John Dewey

Narrated by: Tim Lundeen

This volume also includes a collection of essays entitled The Educational Frontier, Dewey's articles on logic, the outlawry of war, and philosophy for the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and his reviews of Alfred North Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas, Martin Schutze's Academic Illusions in the Field of Letters and the Arts, and Rexford G. Tugwell's Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts.

The book is published by Southern Illinois University Press.

©1986, 2008 Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks

horrible reader, great book.

your worst narrator. great book. listened at increased speed, as reader intolerable.stupid to require 15 words!

Dry, but fruit-bearing for the patient listener

"How We Think" can be of great use to anyone who understands it at a deep level. It's probably not possible to understand it well without repeated listens. The narrator annoyed me at first. Then I realized that I was annoyed by the density, as in ideas per minute, and the dryness of the book's content.

This book is included in the recommended reading list at the end of "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, and I believe is one of the books the Adler and Van Doren refer to as one that will provide new understanding with each listen. Also, they point out that "How We Think" is imperfect, as all books must be, because it "...fails to treat the sort of thinking that occurs in reading or learning by instruction...."

You would absolutely have to care about enhancing your thinking capacity to have the patience to listen to this book. (Unless you were using it to put yourself to sleep.) Some things that you thought could never be explained, and many things that you never thought about are explained in detail. If there is one thing that could have been improved, it would have been to include more examples. Examples are there, however, and when they occur they stand out. A delicious book for the reader hungry to elevate their thinking capacity.