The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education
Title: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education
Editor: Harvey Siegel
Publisher: Oxford Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2009
Call Number: LB14.7 .O93 2009
“Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent decades, however, philosophical thinking about education has largely fallen off the philosophical radar screen. Philosophy of education has lost intimate contact with the parent discipline to a regrettably large extent–to the detriment of both.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education is intended to serve as a general introduction to key issues in the field, to further the philosophical pursuit of those issues, and to bring philosophy of education back into closer contact with general philosophy. Distinguished philosophers and philosophers of education, most of whom have made important contributions to core areas of philosophy, turn their attention in these 28 essays to a broad range of philosophical questions concerning education. The chapters are accessible to readers with no prior exposure to philosophy of education, and provide both surveys of the general domain they address, and advance the discussion in those domains in original and fruitful ways. Together their authors constitute a new wave of general philosophers taking up fundamental philosophical questions about education–the first such cohort of outstanding general philosophers to do so (in English) in a generation.”
“Harvey Siegel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of many papers in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of education, and of Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism (1987),Educating Reason: Rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education (1988), and Rationality Redeemed? Further Dialogues on an Educational Ideal (1997).”
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I saw Harvey Siegel in the Bronx Zoo, once. He was screaming and shouting in front of the Gorilla enclosure, dancing around and waving his arms. Children were gathering around him to watch, fascinated by his hair.
I think he was shouting something about ‘editing the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education,’ and he seemed only to be wearing one shoe.
That was the first I heard of it.
Later on it became apparent that he was editing the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education.
I think I’ll get my coat…