Table of Contents

Harvey Siegel: Introduction: Philosophy of Education and Philosophy
Aims of Education
1: Emily Robertson: The Epistemic Aims of Education
2: Harry Brighouse: Moral and Political Aims of Education
3: Martha Nussbaum: Tagore, Dewey, and the Imminent Demise of Liberal Education
Thinking, Reasoning, Teaching and Learning
4: Richard Feldman: Thinking, Reasoning, and Education
5: Jonathan E. Adler: Why Fallibility Has Not Mattered and How It Could
6: Eamonn Callan and Dylan Arena: Indoctrination
7: Stefaan E. Cuypers: Educating for Authenticity: The Paradox of Moral Education Revisited
8: David Moshman: The Development of Rationality
9: Gareth B. Matthews: Philosophy and Developmental Psychology: Getting Beyond the Deficit Conception of Childhood
10: Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith: Socratic Teaching and Socratic Method
11: Amélie Rorty: Educating the Practical Imagination: A Prolegomena
Moral, Value, and Character Education
12: Michael Slote: Caring, Empathy, and Moral Education
13: Marcia C. Baron: Kantian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of Character
14: Elijah Millgram: The Persistence of Moral Skepticism and the Limits of Moral Education
15: Graham Oddie: Values Education
Knowledge, Curriculum, and Educational Research
16: David Carr: Curriculum and the Value of Knowledge
17: Philip Kitcher: Education, Democracy, and Capitalism
18: Catherine Z. Elgin: Art and Education
19: Robert Audi: Science Education, Religious Toleration, and Liberal Neutrality Toward the Good
20: Richard E. Grandy: Constructivisms, Scientific Methods and Reflective Judgment in Science Education
21: D.C. Phillips: Empirical Educational Research: Charting Philosophical Disagreements in an Undisciplined Field
Social/Political Issues
22: Amy Gutmann: Educating for Individual Freedom and Democratic Citizenship: In Unity and Diversity There Is Strength
23: Meira Levinson: Mapping Multicultural Education
24: Lawrence Blum: Prejudice
25: Rob Reich: Educational Authority and the Interests of Children
Approaches to Philosophy of Education and Philosophy
26: Randall Curren: Pragmatist Philosophy of Education
27: Nel Noddings: Feminist Philosophy and Education
28: Nicholas C. Burbules: Postmodernism and Education

About the Author

Harvey Siegel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.

Reviews

"[T]he collection has notable strengths. The essays cover a wide range of interesting topics from a variety of philosophical perspectives. They are uniformly well-written and accessible to readers without a prior background in the philosophy of education.... As a collection of papers likely to advance research in the philosophy of education, the collection contains many essays that directly take on issues in the area and make important contributions to on-going
debates."--Peter J. Markie, BNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"The Handbook delivers twenty-eight substantial, carefully wrought, informative chapters treating such topics as indoctrination, fallibility, empathy, values, skepticism, imagination, stereotypes, and many others. The chapters try to extract the good from the bad in debates about critical thinking, constructivism, multiculturalism, religious toleration, moral and
civic education, parents' rights, and curriculum design. Some of the chapters are quite original (e.g., Philip Kitcher's and Elijah Millgram's); some ought to go on required reading lists (e.g., Nicholas Burbules's and Meira Levinson's); all make important distinctions and clarify contemporary debates. There's not a clunker in the lot." --Social Theory and Practice
"[T]he book deserves to be on a philosopher of education's shelf." --Science and Education