乔治·赫伯特·米德(1863—1931)是实用主义的主要代表人物之一。他的工作对美国社会科学的发展具有深刻的影响。尽管杜威和怀特黑德极力赞赏米德,大多数哲学家则倾向不予重视,因为他的思想在他生前并未很快为人接受。他不愿将正在形成中的观点写成文字。他没有出版过书籍,他的文章也不全是关于哲学的,许多讲的是教育、心理学和社会学。米德从1893年到去世,一直在芝加哥大学任教。他极善言词,用即席讲课的方式充分发挥了他的思想。尽管他的讲演具有令人费解和过于详尽的风格,甚至他的崇拜者也承认他的 George Herbert Meade (1863-1931) is one of the main representatives of pragmatism. His work has a profound impact on the development of American social science. Although Dewey and Whitehead strongly admired Mead, most philosophers tended to lose sight of the fact that his ideas were not immediately accepted before his death. He does not want to write the emerging viewpoints into words. He did not publish books, his articles are not all about philosophy, many speak about education, psychology and sociology. Mead died in 1893 and has been teaching at the University of Chicago. He was very good at speaking his words in an impromptu lectures, giving full play to his ideas. Although his speech has a puzzling and overly detailed style, even his admirers acknowledge his