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Title

Reason and education : essays in honor of Israel Scheffler / edited by Harvey Siegel.

Publication

Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Siegel, Harvey, 1952-
• Scheffler, Israel.

Description

276 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Israel Scheffler is the pre-eminent philosopher of education in the English-speaking world today. This volume collects seventeen original, invited papers on Scheffler's philosophy of education by scholars from around the world. The papers address the wide range of topics that Scheffler's work in philosophy of education has addressed, including the aims of education, cognition and emotion, teaching, the language of education, science education, moral education, religious education, and human potential. Each paper is followed by a response from Scheffler himself. The collection is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary scholarship in philosophy of education, or with the place of this singularly important author in it.

Subject

• Scheffler, Israel
• Scheffler, Israel
• Scheffler, Israel 1923-2014
• Education > Philosophy
• Reason
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Teaching
• Emotions and cognition
• Science > Philosophy
• Moral education
• reason
• epistemology
• Erziehungsphilosophie
• Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Rationality and human dignity : Confucius, Kant and Scheffler on the ultimate aim of education / Yhhui Park -- Critical thinking and foundational development / Wouter Van Haaften and Ger Snik -- Cognitive emotions and emotional cognitions / Iris M. Yob -- Rational passions and intellectual virtues : a conceptual analysis / Jan Steutel and Ben Spiecker -- In praise of objective-subjectivity : teaching the pursuit of precision / Ann Diller -- Reason in teaching : Scheffler's philosophy of education : 'a maximum of vision and a minimum of mystery' / William Hare -- Teaching, reason and risk / Allen T. Pearson -- Language : definition and metaphor / Robin Barrow -- Is there a 'language of education'? / Jürgen Oelkers -- National goals for eduction and The Language of Education / Carlton H. Bowyer and Herbert L. McCree -- (Re)inventing Scheffler, or, defending objective educational research / D.C. Phillips -- Scheffler revisited on the role of history and philosophy of science in science teacher education / Michael R. Matthews -- In defense of Israel Scheffler's conception of moral education / Jerrold R. Coombs -- Israel Scheffler's ethics : theory and practice / Victor L. Worsfold -- Israel Scheffler on religion, reason and education / Terence McLaughlin -- Reflections on Israel Scheffler's philosophy of religion / Ronald L. Laura -- Total quality management : a plan for optimizing human potential? / Paul W. Wagner -- Replies / Israel Scheffler.

ISBN

• 079234362X
• 9780792343622

LCCN

96038073

OCLC

• ocm36051169
• 36051169
• SCSB-351244

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library