How We Think

{{Short description|Book written by John dewey}}

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How We Think is a book written by the American educational philosopher John Dewey, published in 1910.{{cite book |last=Dewey |first=John |authorlink=John Dewey |date=1910 |title=How we think |location=Boston |publisher=D. C. Heath and Company |oclc=194219 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_TE1IAAAAMAAJ}} The 1910 edition is in the public domain in the United States. It was reissued in a substantially revised edition in 1933.{{cite book |last=Dewey |first=John |authorlink=John Dewey |date=1998 |origyear=1933 |title=How we think: a restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=0395897548 |oclc=38878663}}

The original version has 14 chapters and opens with the words{{quote|No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it is not easy to define just what we mean by them.}} Chapter 1 is then concerned with establishing a "single consistent meaning" for "thinking" and "thought".https://www.the-tls.co.uk/science-technology/sciences/scientific-method-henry-m-cowles-book-review