Inquiries
Philosophical Studies of Language, Science, and Learning
Published on 1. June 2013
416 pages
978-1-7252-3314-0 (ISBN)
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"This book not only offers bold solutions to core problems in the philosophy of science, its clear and careful presentations of the issues make it an excellent book for introducing students to these topics."
--Robert Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Inquiries brings together important philosophical papers on language, science and education. It shows how the preoccupations of each field are enriched by contact with the others."
--Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Inquiries" contains some of Israel Scheffler's most important essays. Some are classics; all are substantial contributions to the topics they address. They range across much of the philosophical landscape, including philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of education; they advance our understanding of quotation, inscription, symbols and symbolic reference, predication, explanation, induction,confirmation, objectivity, the emotions, teaching and learning. This welcome reprinting brings Scheffler's important and infuential work to a new generation of scholars."
--Harvey Siegel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami
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Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University. He taught philosophy at Harvard from 1952 to 1992 and, from 1983 to 2003, was codirector, then director of the Philosophy of Education Research Center there. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education, and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society. Among his previous books are The Anatomy of Inquiry (1963), Four Pragmatists (1974), Of Human Potential (1985), In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (1991), and Worlds of Truth (2009). His main interests lie in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science, and education.
