What Do Philosophers of Education Do?: (And How Do They Do It?) (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors vii

Foreword ix
Paul Standish

1 Introduction: The Question of Method in Philosophy of Education 1
Claudia Ruitenberg

2 The Strict Analysis and the Open Discussion 10
Katariina Holma

3 ‘Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better’: Dialectical Argument in Philosophy of Education 24
Daniel Vokey

4 Education and Selfhood: A Phenomenological Investigation 41
Michael Bonnett

5 Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein) 54
Andrew Davis

6 Witnessing Deconstruction in Education: Why Quasi-Transcendentalism Matters 73
Gert Biesta

7 Under the Name of Method: On Jacques Rancie` re’s Presumptive Tautology 87
Charles Bingham

8 Distance and Defamiliarisation: Translation as Philosophical Method 103
Claudia Ruitenberg

9 Between the Lines: Philosophy, Text and Conversation 118
Richard Smith

10 Method, Philosophy of Education and the Sphere of the Practico-Inert 131
Marianna Papastephanou

Index 150