New Recording! How We Think, by John Dewey, Part 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Let’s relax with a new recording of a very old episode from a book I had completely forgotten about! Tonight, we learn what constitutes “thinking,” ponder clouds and forks in the road, and consider the similarity between children and scientists. Cutting edge stuff for 1910!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you |
| 0:17.3 | get some sleep. Before we begin I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our Patreon family. |
| 0:28.0 | Alexandra, Pat, Jenny, and Holly. |
| 0:35.0 | Thank you all so much for supporting this podcast. |
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| 1:18.1 | I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. |
| 1:21.1 | Now, let's read and relax. Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. |
| 1:35.0 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 1:41.0 | Let it out slowly. And off we go. |
| 1:49.0 | Tonight let's continue our series of brand new recordings of some very old episodes indeed. |
| 1:57.0 | This one reaches back all the way to March 2019, |
| 2:02.0 | which I find hard to believe was more than five years ago, how time flies. |
| 2:10.0 | Tonight we're relaxing with How We Think by John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University. |
| 2:21.2 | First published in 1910 by DC Heath and Co publishers, Boston, New York, and Chicago. |
| 2:32.0 | Let's begin. Preface. |
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