Central European Pragmatist Forum. / Volume 3, : Education for a democratic society / / edited by John Ryder and Gert-Rudiger Wegmarshaus.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series, 179
• TeilnehmendeR: Ryder, John, 1951-; Wegmarshaus, Gert Rudiger, 1954-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 179.; Value inquiry book series. Studies in pragmatism and values.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is the third volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of education, and the papers are organized into sections on Education and Democracy, Education and Values, Education and Social Reconstruction, and Education and the Self. The authors are among the leading specialists in American philosophy from universities across the U.S. and in Central and Eastern Europe. The series Studies in Pragmatism and Values promotes the study of pragmatism’s traditions and figures, and the explorations of pragmatic inquiries in all areas of philosophical thought.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- THE NECESSITY OF CRITICISM: DEWEY, DERRIDA, AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION TODAY / Don Morse -- JOHN DEWEY AND THE NECESSITY OF A DEMOCRATIC CIVIC EDUCATION / Carlos Mougan Rivero -- PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION: RICHARD RORTY’S CONSIDERATIONS / Alexander Kremer -- DEMOCRACY UNDEFENDED: EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE / Jane Skinner -- PRAGMATIC MORAL REALISM: EDUCATION FOR ETHICAL SERIOUSNESS / Sami Pihlström -- JOHN DEWEY’S POST-TRADITIONAL NOTION OF COMMUNITY / Dirk Jörke -- ART AS EDUCATION: CONSTRUCTIVISM AND INSTRUMENTALISM / Lyubov Bugaeva -- DEWEY’S IDEA OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN THE PROCESSES OF EDUCATION / Krystyna Wilkoszewska -- RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH EDUCATION / James Campbell -- JOHN DEWEY’S UNDERSTANDING OF DEMOCRACY: INSPIRING POLITICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY / Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus -- IS PRAGMATIC POLITICAL TECHNOLOGY A REASONABLE POSSIBILITY? / John Ryder -- THICK DEMOCRACY TOO MUCH? TRY PRAGMATISM LITE / Michael Eldridge -- PERSONS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES: SOCRATES, BUBER, AND DEWEY / Richard E. Hart -- PLURALISM AND DEMOCRACY: INDIVIDUALISM BY ANOTHER NAME? / Erin McKenna -- STEPS TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: LOYALTY TO THE INHERITED MATRIX OF EXPERIMENTAL INTELLIGENCE / Vincent Colapietro -- EDUCATING FOR AUTONOMY: IDENTITY AND INTERSECTIONAL SELVES / Kathleen Wallace -- LEARNING ABOUT POSSIBILITY / John Lachs -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.