Education and the Growth of Knowledge

Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology
Herausgegeben von Kotzee, Ben

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Produktbeschreibung

In this collection, aimed at an educational audience, a group of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education sketch the implications of innovations in contemporary epistemology for education. Advances in social and virtue epistemology are applied for an educational audience and the links between the two subjects are re-stated for an academic field that has become sceptical of the concept of knowledge.

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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

Produktdetails

• Journal of Philosophy of Education
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781118721315
• ISBN-10: 1118721314
• Artikelnr.: 39907920

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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