• 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, Amelie 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

Harvey Siegel is Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami.

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.