Details the intellectual development of George Herbert Mead as a thinker of great originality and as a practitioner of social reform.

While rooted in careful study of Mead’s original writings and transcribed lectures and the historical context in which that work was carried out, the papers in this volume have brought Mead’s work to bear on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy.

This chapter contains sections titled: Mead's Published Writings Mead and the Functionalism of the Early Chicago School Social Psychological Theories Moral Consciousness and Moral Reasoning Social Pragmatism.