Proceedings from two conferences of a society of specialists in the philosophy of education comprise this document. Fourteen papers are included from the 1989 conference program. They are: (1) "George S. Counts: Dare Educators Inspire World Vision?" (C. A. Ryan); (2) "Political Activities of George S. Counts and John L. Childs" (L. J. Dennis); (3) "Recollection" (P. A. Schilpp); (4) "The Failure of Reconstructionism" (D. G. Smith); (5) "The Legacy of Counts: Contemporary Motivational Theory in Education and the Power of the Status Quo" (R. Brosio); (6) "Zen Buddhism: A Religious Paradigm of Pedagogy" (D. Schultz); (7) "Makers of Meaning: Students as Active Participants" (J. S. Kelly); (8) "Making History, Making Lives, and Making Connections" (S. Schroeder); (9) "Neurophilosophy of Sensorial Epistemology: An Update on G. H. Mead's Second Stage of the Act" (G. W. Stickel); (10) "Conversation for Diversity: A Case for Critical Hermeneutics" (M. Abascal-Hildebrand); (11) "Democratic Character and Democratic Education: A Cognitive and Rational Reappraisal" (M. Gross); and three papers on education and institutional democracy by B. F. Radebaugh, R. P. Craig, and A. Brown. Twelve papers from the 1990 conference are presented. These include: "Ahead to the Past: Adventures in Pragmatic Justification" (J. A. Popp); "Comments" (H. S. Brody); "The Semiotics of Habit: A View of Charles Sanders Peirce's Categories in Learning" (G. W. Stickel); and "Classics and Beyond" (D. B. Owen). Other authors include Richard H. Owens, Jack S. Kelly, Ronald M. Swartz, Lawrence J. Dennis, Robert P. Craig, Edward G. Rozycki, and Alexander Makedon. The presidential address, "Doing Dewey Again and Again," was delivered by Ronald M. Swartz. (KM)