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  • Inquiries
    Israel Scheffler
    About the Contributor(s):Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University. He taught philosophy at Harvard from 1952 to 1992 and, from 1983 to 2003, was codirector, then director of the Philosophy of Education Research Center there. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the Nati...
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    45,12 €

  • Four Pragmatists
    Israel Scheffler
    First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. ...
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    77,13 €

  • In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals)
    Israel Scheffler
    First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler’s most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference but taken rather as the capactity to grasp principles an...
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    84,33 €

  • Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals)
    Israel Scheffler
    The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold mischief in social and educational practice. First published in 1985, Israel Scheffler...
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    84,49 €

  • Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)
    Israel Scheffler
    Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point...
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    88,51 €

  • Symbolic Worlds
    Israel Scheffler
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    54,31 €

  • Gallery of Scholars
    Israel Scheffler
    This book offers a personal account of scholars in philosophy and education with whom I have had the good fortune to interact during the course of my half century at Harvard University and elsewhere. My aim in writing this account is threefold: ?rst, to recapture for myself the pleasure of their memorable company for its own sake, secondly, to have oc...
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    134,46 €

  • Teachers of My Youth
    Israel Scheffler
    Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has now written a more personal book, looking at education through the prism of his own early experience, primarily of religious learning. The book consists mainly of portraits of his early teachers, m...
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    134,25 €