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Values, Education and the Human World

St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Volume 1

John Haldane, Editor

The essays in this collection are revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered at the universities of St. Andrews, London, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds. The  texts comprise a coherent set of challenges to prevailing assumptions regarding values and education. The opening chapters frame the book in a forthright attack on the 'empiricist orthodoxy' that, with its disastrous effects on education, permeates the modern world. The chapters that follow take up the cause from one perspective or another, addressing questions of culture and excellence, politics and civil society, religion and pluralism, science and scientism, the aims of education and the nature of good teaching. The book brings these matters to the general educated reader in a lively and thought-provoking manner.

This is the first volume in a series based at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews. The series is under the general editorship of centre director John Haldane, and is expected to include monographs, collections of essays and occasional anthologies of source material representing study in those areas of philosophy most relevant to topics of public importance, with the aim of advancing the contribution of philosophy in the discussion of these topics.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • John Haldane, The Nature of Values
  • David Carr, Problems of Values Education
  • Anthony Quinton
          A Cultural Crisis: The Devaluation of Values
          A Revaluation of Values
  • Anthony O'Hear
          Education, Value and the Sense of Awe
          The Pursuit of Excellence
  • Richard Pring
          The Aim of Education
          The Context of Education
  • Mary Warnock
          Meeting Educational Needs
          Good Teaching
  • Jonathan Sacks
          Political Society, Civil Society
          Languages of Morals
  • Stewart Sutherland
          Values, Religion and Education
          Diagnosis; Prognosis? Cure?
  • Mary Midgley
          Science and Poetry
          Atoms, Memes and Individuals
  • Bryan Appleyard
          The Threat of Scientism
          The New Marx
  • References
  • Index

"The onset of the twenty-first century has seen increased interest in the theoretical foundations of socio-political thinking with a view to clarifying the bearing of philosophical principles upon issues of public interest. St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs make a significant contribution to this important trend. They afford highly interesting, lucid and challenging studies of key issues of public concern, by a wide spectrum of writers, including some of the most interesting and influential thinkers of the day. This series is a must for academic libraries." -- Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh

· ISBN 1-84540-000-3 · Published October 2004 by Imprint Academic · Paperback · 274 pages · $29.90 ·

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