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Philosophic Method and Educational Issues: The Legacy of Richard Peters
Author(s) -
BARROW ROBIN
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.12441
Subject(s) - philosophy of education , epistemology , value (mathematics) , sociology , subject (documents) , value theory , work (physics) , philosophy , law , higher education , computer science , political science , mechanical engineering , machine learning , library science , engineering
My discussion suggests that one of Richard Peters’ main contributions to the philosophy of education was in expounding and stressing the need for a particular view of the subject, essentially conceptual analysis. The paper proceeds to defend this view and Peters’ specific account of education against the charges that his work relies simply on preferred definitions and that it is unwarrantably prescriptive. The practical value of this kind of philosophy is then further assessed, while in the final section attention is drawn to Peters’ commitment to the idea of education being an integrally moral enterprise.