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Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom

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Editors:
  1. Keith Lehrer

    1. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  2. B. Jeannie Lum

    1. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

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  3. Beverly A. Slichta

    1. Erie Community College, Orchard Park, USA

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  4. Nicholas D. Smith

    1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 67)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introductory Essay

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introductory Essay Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom

      • Keith Lehrer, Nicholas D. Smith
      Pages 3-17

  3. Socrates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Aims of the Socratic Elenchos

      • Hugh H. Benson
      Pages 21-33

    3. What Good is Human Wisdom?

      • Scott Warren Calef
      Pages 35-47

    4. Which “Socratic Method”? Models of Education in Plato’s Dialogues

      • David H. Calhoun
      Pages 49-70

    5. Socratic Teaching and the Search for Coherence

      • Roger P. Ebertz
      Pages 71-81

  4. Other Historical Views

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. The Teaching of Wisdom: The Platonic Model of Teacher as Learner & Teaching as Inquiry

      • B. Jeannie Lum
      Pages 85-99

    3. Wisdom and Ruling in the Republic

      • Peter Vernezze
      Pages 101-109

    4. Rediscovering Aquinas’ Concept of “Knowledge”

      • Ted F. Cruz
      Pages 111-124

    5. Hume’s Positive Program

      • Robert Snyder
      Pages 125-133

  5. Knowledge and Justification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Justification and Knowledge

      • Bruce Russell
      Pages 137-147

    3. Justifying Basic Belief Forming Processes

      • Leopold Stubenberg
      Pages 149-162

    4. Seeing, Believing and So Forth

      • Daniel Gilman
      Pages 163-175

    5. “Who are You going to Believe-Me or Your Own Eyes?” The Place of Testimony in Knowledge Acquisition

      • James F. Sennett
      Pages 177-185

    6. Knowing What You Believe

      • Ann Owens
      Pages 187-191

  6. Skepticism and Ways of Knowing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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About this book

This book derives from a 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom. The Institute took place at the University of California, Berkeley, and was co-directed by Keith Lehrer and Nicholas D. Smith. The aims of the Institute were several: we sought to reintroduce wisdom as a topic of discussion among contemporary philosophers, to undertake an historical investigation of how and when and why it was that wisdom faded from philosophical view, and to ask how contemporary epistemological theories might apply to the obviously related subjects of teaching and wisdom. In recruiting participants, Lehrer and Smith put the greatest emphasis on those with professional interests in epistemology and the history of philosophy, of the ancient Greeks especially ancient Greek philosophy (because in the writings all three subjects of the Institute were explicitly related and discussed). But in addition to these two groups, some effort was made also to include others, with academic specializations in a variety of fields other than epistemology and the history of philosophy, to ensure that a broad perspective could be achieved in our discussions. To an obvious extent, the papers in this book reflect the recruitment emphases and variety. They also testify to the extent that the Institute managed to bring life to our subjects, and to raise very old questions in a contemporary context.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Keith Lehrer

  • University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    B. Jeannie Lum

  • Erie Community College, Orchard Park, USA

    Beverly A. Slichta

  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Nicholas D. Smith

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom

  • Editors: Keith Lehrer, B. Jeannie Lum, Beverly A. Slichta, Nicholas D. Smith

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2022-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3980-9Published: 31 March 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4684-0Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2022-9Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 292

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Education, Classical Philosophy

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