Product Description: John Dewey was unique among American philosophers in his insistence that the events, the social structure, the beliefs and attitudes of a period, its models of science and human history, all have some constitutive role in its philosophical theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents the results of an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration to clarify theories of morality and anthropology and philosophy, showing how each may be enriched by borrowing from the other. Pooling the resources and methods of their respective fields-anthropology and philosophy-May and Abraham Edel examine the wide range of moral differences in the world "to establish 'coordinates' for the more systematic mapping of particular moralities, to explore more explicitly the relations of morality to cultural patterns and social processes, and to see how philosophic issues of ethical theory become refined and reformulated when their cultural content is made manifest...read more

Product Description: Initially prepared as part of the Foundations of the Unity of Science volumes under the auspices of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Science and the Structure of Ethics soon took on a life of its own. Well positioned in the naturalistic tradition of ethical theory extending from John Dewey at the start and Richard Rorty at the conclusion of the century, Abraham Edel's volume offers a remarkable synthesis of the ways hi which ethical statements can be examined, and the nature of ethical concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this stunning act of synthesis, Abraham Edel captures the entire range of Aristotle's thought in a manner that will prove attractive and convincing to a contemporary audience. Many philosophers approach Aristotle with their own, rather than his, questions...read more

Product Description: In Ethical Judgment, Abraham Edel makes clear the part played by biological and social scientific information in ethical judgment and moral action using psychological, anthropological, and economic materials as well as historical studies...read more

Product Description: Over the past two decades, applied ethics has turned increasingly toward theories that explore ethical questions faced by a variety of professions and away from classic moral concerns. Abraham Edel, Elizabeth Flower, and Finbarr O'Connor utilize examples of professional, public policy, and personal decision making to illustrate the strengths and limitations of the application of ethics in a rapidly changing world...read more

Product Description: When Method in Ethical Theory was initially published in 1963, it called for greater awareness of how an agenda for moral philosophy is established and the conditons under which it changes. Edel strives for effective comparison of ethical theories, denying that any one theory has exclusive claim to the truth about ethics...read more

Product Description: In the current atmosphere of controversy about modes of interpreting literature, historical influences in science, and subtle ideologies in social theory, Abraham Edel confronts the institutionalized separation of the humanities and the sciences, the segregation of disciplines through structures that rest on entrenched dualisms, and the isolations reenforced by habits of the academy and its struggles over turf...read more

Product Description: On June 20,1938, the trustees of the City Colleges of New York changed the by-laws on the governance of the colleges. The transformation of New York City's colleges from autocratic to democratic rule virtually overnight was a revolutionary event in American higher education within the context of the 1930s...read more

What is meant by education? How are educational institutions and processes evaluated, and how can they be improved? What curriculum is best? How are philosophy and education related? Abraham Edel answers these questions in the course of exploring education. He considers the problems of educational philosophy under conditions of rapid social change in the twentieth century and argues that too many of the traditional approaches to education were set in an effort to delineate a permanent structure rather than to work out ways of handling rapid change. Older models of education have worn thin and new approaches have to be constructed. Interpreting Education clears away old confusions and indicates the conditions that fresh modes of thought will have to satisfy. Contents: "Education and Schooling in Cultural Perspective"; "Grading: Tracking the Philosophical Roots of a Specific Problem"; "A Philosophical Outlook as an Educational Resource"; "Current Critiques of the Schools"; "Politicized Schools and the Ideal of Impartiality"; "Ideals and Their Assessment"; "Toward a Moral Agenda for Contemporary Education"; "Rationality, Autonomy, Relativism"; "Teacher and Student in the Contemporary World"; "Learning and Teaching: Conceptual Problems"; "Forms of Learning"; "The Pedagogical Encounter"; "Scientific Knowledge and the Humanities"; "Social and Moral Education"; "Complexities of the Familiar: Sport and Physical Education; Crafts, Arts, and Technology; Basic Skills"; "The Confrontation of the Liberal and Vocational-Technical"; "The Social Character of Dewey's Philosophy"; "Aims of Education: A Comparison Instead of a Controversy."

Product Description: Broad in span and highly flexible, this text offers a comprehensive collection of readings in moral and ethical theory set in their historical and intellectual contexts. Major historical schools from the early Graeco-Roman to the present are ordered chronologically, yet the readings lend themselves well to grouping by author, by school of thought, or by theme and problem...read more

Product Description: The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles...read more

Product Description: The problem created by diverse and competing modes of conceptual analysis that have been employed in the social disciplines is the topic of this first volume of the Science, Ideology, and Value series. How such conflicts are to be interpreted is the main philosophical task of this book...read more