Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aims of education. The epistemic aims of education / Emily Robertson -- Moral and political aims of education / Harry Brighouse -- Tagore, Dewey, and the imminent demise of liberal education / Martha Nussbaum -- Thinking, reasoning, teaching, and learning. Thinking, reasoning, and education / Richard Feldman -- Why fallibility has not mattered and how it could / Jonathan E. Adler -- Indoctrination / Eamonn Callan and Dylan Arena -- Educating for authenticity : the paradox of moral education revisited / Stefaan E. Cuypers -- The development of rationality / David Moshman -- Philosophy and developmental psychology : outgrowing the deficit conception of childhood / Gareth B. Matthews -- Socratic teaching and Socratic method / Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith -- Educating the practical imagination : a prolegomena / Amélie Rorty -- Moral, value, and character education. Caring, empathy, and moral education / Michael Slote -- Kantian moral maturity and the cultivation of character / Marcia W. Baron -- The persistence of moral skepticism and the limits of moral education / Elijah Millgram -- Values education / Graham Oddie -- Knowledge, curriculum, and educational research. Curriculum and the value of knowledge / David Carr -- Education, democracy, and capitalism / Philip Kitcher -- Art and education / Catherine Z. Elgin -- Science education, religious toleration, and liberal neutrality toward the good / Robert Audi -- Constructivisms, scientific methods, and reflective judgment in science education / Richard E. Grandy -- Empirical educational research : charting philosophical disagreements in an undisciplined field / D.C. Phillips -- Social and political issues. Educating for individual freedom and democratic citizenship : in unity and diversity there is strength / Amy Gutmann -- Mapping multicultural education / Meira Levinson -- Prejudice / Lawrence Blum -- Educational authority and the interests of children / Rob Reich -- Approaches to philosophy of education and philosophy. Pragmatist philosophy of education / Randall Curren -- Feminist philosophy and education / Nel Noddings -- Postmodernism and education / Nicholas C. Burbules.