Whitehead, process philosophy, and education.

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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 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