Philosophy of Education

Philosophy of Education

Resources

General and Introductory Materials

Adventures in Philosophy: A brief history of philosophy

http://radicalacademy.com/adiphildirectory.htm

Philosophy Class

http://www.philosophyclass.com/introduction.htm

Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education

http://www.vusst.hr/ENCYCLOPAEDIA/main.htm

ILT Study Space for Philosophy and Education

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/spaces/philosophy/

Catalog of Internet Resources: Philosophy Education: http://bubl.ac.uk/link/p/philosophyeducation.htm

Philosophy for Children

http://home12.inet.tele.dk/fil/

The Tree of Philosophy by Stephen Palmquist

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/tp4/

Philosophy Radio

http://www.angelfire.com/ego/philosophyradio/

Philosophers

Major Western Philosophers

http://radicalacademy.com/adiphildirectory.htm

Major Islamic Philosophers

http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/muslim/

The Study of Islamic Philosophy

http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/study-philosophy.htm

Islamic Philosophy Online

http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/

Eastern Philosophers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_philosophy

Listed in historic order

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher#Eastern_philosophers_in_approximate_historical_order:

Divisions of philosophy

· From Philosophy Class

http://www.philosophyclass.com/

Logic
Epistemology
Ethics
Metaphysics
Political Philosophy
Aesthetics

Rescher, N. (2000). Process philosophy: A survey of basic issues. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

1. Analytic philosophy – aims at precision and clarity, taking as its model the formal or empirical sciences

a. Frege

b. Moore

c. Russell

d. C. D. Broad

2. Continental philosophy – aims at historical depth and hermeneutical generality, taking a humanistic and value-oriented approach

a. Heidegger

b. Cassierer

c. Gadamer

d. Croce

e. Sartre

3. Process philosophy – concerned with issues of priority and significance, of interpersonal action and interaction, and of larger human concerns

a. Tendency to place process philosophy within the continental philosophy group

i. Precursors

1. Leibniz

2. Hegel

ii. Americans influenced by continental thinking

1. Peirce

2. Whitehead – articulated position in terms of physics

3. Hartshorne

iii. Other process philosophers

1. Bergson – organic processes as central (biology); other sorts of processes as modeled on or superengrafted upon them

2. William James – based processes on psychological model; saw human thought as idealistically pragmatic

3. John Dewey – based processes on sociocultural interactions

iv. Antiprocessists principally recruited from analytic thinking

1. Ramsey

2. Quine

3. Strawson

b. Major issues – these are quintessentially analytical in character

i. How does the concept of process work?

ii. What is the nature of a process?

iii. How is the conception of a process bound up with that of time?

iv. How is the temporal aspect of processes to be understood?

v. What is involved with the existence of processes? How are we to understand the claim that a center process actually exists?

vi. What sorts of processes are there? How are the processes to be classified, and what is the typology of process?

c. Unity of process philosophy is not doctrinal but thematic

d. Satisfactory articulation of process philosophy requires the

i. evaluative appraisal and historical contextualization that characterizes Continental philosophy

ii. conceptual clarification and explanatory systematization that characterizes Analytic philosophy

e. Process philosophy and pragmatism

i. Pragmatism – the natural and appropriate way to assess the adequacy of any teleologically goal-directed practice is through its effectiveness and efficiency in realizing the objectives at issue

ii. Process philosoply – dynamism that prioritizes processes for things

iii. Related by common instrument in concern for operational efficacy in the course of procedural development; prioritize a concern for effectiveness and efficiency in the context of teleological processes