Part I: Historical Background.- Introduction: Conceptions of rationality.- Chapter 1. The problem of rationality and the tradition of philosophy-as-epistemology.- Part II: Rationality and philosophy of education.- Chapter 2. The autonomy of analytic philosophy of education.- Chapter 3. Three theories of knowledge in education.- Part III: Constitutive rationality and historicism.- Chapter 4. The force of historicism in the philosophy of science.- Chapter 5 Hermeneutics, social theory and education.

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University Faculty of Education PRC, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at UrbanäChampaign, where he was appointed as Excellence Hire Professor. He has also held positions at the University of Canterbury, and the University of Waikato, and held a Personal Chair at the University of Auckland (2000-2005) where he is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow. He is the executive editor of the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory (https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rept20)  and founding editor of five international journals.  His interests are in educational philosophy and theory and he has written over one hundred books, including Post-Truth, Fake News (eds. Springer, 2018), Education and Technological Unemployment (eds. Springer 2019) and The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (Routledge, 2019). He edited the Springer Companion to Wittgenstein and Education: Pedagogical Investigations (2017) and Wittgenstein¿s Education: `A Picture Held Us Captive¿ (with Jeff Stickney, Springer, 20017). He has acted as an advisor to governments in the USA, Scotland, NZ, South Africa, UNESCO and the EU. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ in 2010 and awarded honorary doctorates by State University of New York (SUNY) in 2012 and University of Aalborg in 2015.