The Origins of American Philosophy of Education Its Development as a Distinct Discipline, 1808–1913

John Dewey once wrote: "Education is such an important interest of life that . . . we should expect to find a philosophy of education, just as there is a philosophy of art and of religion. We should expect, that is, such a treatment of the subject as would show that the nature of existence rend...

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Main Author: Chambliss, Joseph James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1968, 1968
Edition:1st ed. 1968
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Inductive Empiricism
  • Joseph Neef’s Sensationalistic Empiricism
  • George Jardine’s Philosophical Education
  • James G. Carter: An Inductive Science of Education
  • Thomas Tate: An Inductive Philosophy of Education
  • Herbert Spencer: Evolutionism and Progress
  • Joseph Payne on the Science and Art of Education
  • G. E. Partridge: Scientism and the Philosophy of Education
  • II Rationalism
  • James P. Wickersham: Rationalistic Principles as Precepts
  • Rationalism’s Classic Philosophy of Education
  • Herman Harrell Home’s Idealistic Theism
  • III. Naturalistic Empiricism
  • Chauncey Wright’s Suggestive Naturalism
  • John Dewey: Experience as Empirical and Natural
  • John Angus MacVannel: Experimentalism and Functionalism
  • A Common Prospect
  • Bibliographic Note