Spanning the crucial years of Dewey's move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 col-lects thirty-six essays and reviews pub-lished at the very time Dewey deter-mined that his professional future would lie in the field of philosophy. After resigning from Chicago, Dewey seriously considered a career in univer-sity administration before finally decid-ing to accept a professorship in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia, where he was to remain the rest of his professional life.