The Main Enterprise of the World
Rethinking Education
Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality education available to all, and argues that these reforms are economically sustainable. Drawing on figures like Dewey, Mill, Atkinson, and others who have written deeply on education, both in theory and inpractice, Kitcher's erudite yet accessible volume-the inaugural volume in the Walter A. Strauss Lectures in the Humanities series-offers an extensive reconsideration of how we might change our edu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-092897-1
- EAN: 9780190928971
- Produktnummer: 36618627
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 440 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm
Über den Autor
Philip Kitcher was born in 1947 in London (U.K.). He received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American Universities, and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Columbia. He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, naturalistic ethics, pragmatism, Wagner'sRing, Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and Mann's Death in Venice. In 2019, he was awarded the Rescher Medal for contributions to systematic philosophy.
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