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Delton Thomas Howard

b. 1883

Best known for a close study of John Dewey's ideas, this early 20th-century scholar wrote about logic, psychology, and advertising. His surviving works suggest a teacher interested in how people think and how ideas work in everyday life.

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John Dewey's logical theory

John Dewey's logical theory

by Delton Thomas Howard

About the author

Delton Thomas Howard was an American writer and academic born in 1883. Records for his books and library catalogs show him as the author of John Dewey's logical theory (1919), and archival material from the Smithsonian identifies him as a professor of psychology at Northwestern University.

His work ranged across philosophy and psychology. In addition to John Dewey's logical theory, catalog records connect him with Outline of General Psychology and with a revised edition of The Psychology of Advertising, showing an interest in both abstract thought and practical human behavior.

There is not a great deal of easily confirmed biographical detail available online, but the picture that emerges is of a scholar who moved between philosophy, psychology, and teaching. His books remain most notable for their careful engagement with John Dewey and for reflecting the academic world of American psychology and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century.