“…There are two parts to the argument I present in the 2000 and 2001 TCR articles: First, as indicated, I believe that Dewey underwent a significant-Fyes, even dramaticFmidcareer (i.e., 1915) change in philosophical perspective, and, second, I argue that this change was inspired by, and drew heavily on, the groundbreaking work of Charles Sanders Peirce, a scholar who had completed the lion's share of his own enormous contribution to philosophy some 30 years before Dewey adopted essentially the same approach (i.e., transactional realism). Stanic and Russell (2002), in their effort to refute both parts of this thesis, draw primarily on material included in the two sections referenced previously to challenge both aspects of this thesis. They do concede that Dewey changed many of his views about knowledge, inquiry, and the like from early to late in his career but prefer to characterize these changes as evidence of a pattern of continuous reconstruction rather than the discontinuous rethinking of important issues (p. 1229).…”