Education and the Growth of Knowledge (eBook)

Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology

Ben Kotzee (Herausgeber)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-72129-2 (ISBN)

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Education and the Growth of Knowledge is a collection of original contributions from a group of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education, who sketch the implications of advances in contemporary epistemology for education. 

• New papers on education and social and virtue epistemology contributed by a range of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education 
• Reconceives epistemology in the light of notions from social and virtue epistemology
• Demonstrates that a reconsideration of epistemology in the light of ideas from social and virtue epistemology will in turn re-invigorate the links between epistemology and education 

Ben Kotzee is lecturer in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values at the University of Birmingham. He specializes in applying insights from contemporary epistemology to questions in the philosophy of education. Dr Kotzee has previously written on the nature and development of expertise, educational justice and the constructivism/realism debate. He takes an active interest in professional education and is currently engaged in a study of character and values in the professions with a special focus on the legal profession. 

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction

Education, Social Epistemology and Virtue Epistemology

Ben Kotzee 1

1 Epistemic Dependence in Testimonial Belief, in the Classroom
and Beyond

Sanford Goldberg 14

2 Learning from Others

David Bakhurst 36

3 Anscombe's 'Teachers'

Jeremy Wanderer 55

4 Can Inferentialism Contribute to Social Epistemology?

Jan Derry 76

5 Epistemic Virtue and the Epistemology of Education

Duncan Pritchard 92

6 Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to
Practice

Jason Baehr 106

7 Detecting Epistemic Vice in Higher Education Policy: Epistemic
Insensibility in the Seven Solutions and the REF

Heather Battaly 124

8 Three Different Conceptions of Know-How and Their Relevance to
Professional and Vocational Education

Christopher Winch 145

9 The Epistemic Value of Diversity

Emily Robertson 166

Index 179

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Philosophy of Education
• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Philosophy of Education
• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Philosophy of Education
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Anscombe • Aristotle • Bildungswesen • Education • Educational Theory • Education & Public Policy • epistemic value of diversity • epistemic vice • epistemic virtue • Epistemology • Epistemology of Education • Higher education policy • intellectual virtue • Knowledge • Pädagogik • Pädagogik u. Politik • Pädagogik • Pädagogik u. Politik • Philosophie • Philosophie der Bildung u. Erziehung • Philosophy • Philosophy of education • professional education • Social epistemology • testimonial belief • Theorie der Pädagogik • Theorie der Pädagogik • Theory of Education • Traditional epistemology • Virtue epistemology • vocational education
• ISBN-10: 1-118-72129-2 / 1118721292
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-72129-2 / 9781118721292