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