Abstract

This collection of essays reveals the natural coincidence of the interests of contemporary analytic philosophers with the central concepts of a philosophy of education which extends its focus to education in its most advanced stages—"higher" education and the development of rationality. It is against this sort of background that the discussion of the notions of creativity, socialization, believing and knowing, critical thinking, emotion and desire, virtue and duty, is set forth. At the hands of contributors who are among the leading British philosophers topics that may be somewhat played out in the philosophical journals acquire an invigorating freshness when posed anew in the narrower context of philosophy of education.