The essays serve as an introduction to key issues in philosophy of education, and advance the discussion of those issues in original and fruitful ways. Distinguished philosophers address a broad range of philosophical questions concerning education--the first cohort of outstanding general philosophers to do so (in English) in a generation.

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

• Introduction: Philosophy of Education and Philosophy


• Aims of Education


• 1: Emily Robertson: The Epistemic Aims of Education


• 2: Harry Brighouse: Moral and Political Aspects 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