John Dewey outlined the importance and processes of reflection in practice over 100 years ago.

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Barnes followed his friend the philosopher John Dewey in rejecting the meat-rack tidiness of standard museums.

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It is an intellectual history, too, paying as much attention to thinkers such as John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr and George Kennan, whose arguments shaped the decisions of presidents, as to the doings of the presidents themselves.

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As John Dewey observed, it's only in private conversation that political opinion crystallizes, as people absorb the words they read or hear from on high and incorporate the ideas they stand for into the stories they tell about politics and their lives.

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And in his teachings and writings, Dr. Barnes drew on his scientific background (as well as the writings of Henry James, John Dewey and George Santayana) to bring a new rigor to the criticism of art, replacing approaches he found intellectually flabby or simply beside the point.

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Mitt Romney, instead of being the most electable, is firmly in the tradition of Thomas Dewey, Jerry Ford, Bob Dole, and John McCain.

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His next film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a parody of music biopic genre, stars John C.

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