Kotzee Education and the Growth of Knowledge

Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-72130-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Journal of Philosophy of Education

Education and the Growth of Knowledge is a collection oforiginal contributions from a group of eminent philosophers andphilosophers of education, who sketch the implications of advancesin contemporary epistemology for education.

* New papers on education and social and virtue epistemologycontributed by a range of eminent philosophers and philosophers ofeducation

* Reconceives epistemology in the light of notions from socialand virtue epistemology

* Demonstrates that a reconsideration of epistemology in thelight of ideas from social and virtue epistemology will in turnre-invigorate the links between epistemology andeducation

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kotzee, Ben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction
Education, Social Epistemology and Virtue Epistemology
Ben Kotzee 1
1 Epistemic Dependence in Testimonial Belief, in the Classroomand 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 toPractice
Jason Baehr 106
7 Detecting Epistemic Vice in Higher Education Policy: EpistemicInsensibility in the Seven Solutions and the REF
Heather Battaly 124
8 Three Different Conceptions of Know-How and Their Relevance toProfessional and Vocational Education
Christopher Winch 145
9 The Epistemic Value of Diversity
Emily Robertson 166
Index 179

Über Autor(innen)

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.