Whitehead, process philosophy, and education.

✍ Scribed by Robert Sherrick Brumbaugh

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows clearly how philosophy can be applied to education in an effective manner. It is applied metaphysics in the fullest sense—a truly practical philosophy book.

Robert Brumbaugh shows convincingly how our current educational practices are based on a metaphysics derived from seventeenth-century physics. Our modern understanding of reality implies a very different view of education and very different educational practices. He also shows how and why this new process view of education differs from the "back to basics" diagnosis and prescription.

Robert S. Brumbaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. A former president of the Metaphysical Society of America, he is the author of many books and articles. His Philosophers of Greece was recently published by SUNY Press.

"Nothing on Whitehead and education compares with this in scope and depth. To my knowledge, nothing on education written recently has this degree of philosophical sophistication. " — David Griffin

✦ Table of Contents

Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE Education and Reality: Two Revolutions
CHAPTER TWO Space: Neither Void nor Plenum
CHAPTER THREE Sequence and Pattern
CHAPTER FOUR Logic and Time
CHAPTER FIVE Time Passes: Platonic Variations
CHAPTER SIX On Teaching and Learning: What It Is Like to Learn
CHAPTER SEVEN On Concrete Seeing
CHAPTER EIGHT Teaching
Introduction
Motivation: Plato’s Socrates
Precision: St. Thomas’ Angel
Presence: An Adventure of a Yale Lecturer
CHAPTER NINE Knowing: Whitehead’s Third Stage
CHAPTER TEN Importance and Cosmology
CHAPTER ELEVEN Immortality: Whitehead’s Lecture and Plato’s Phaedo
Notes
Index