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Direct linkGriffiths, Morwenna; Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
Ludwig Wittgenstein suggests that "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes". The idea for this dialogue comes from a conversation that Michael Peters and Morwenna Griffiths had at the Philosophy of Education of Great Britain annual meeting at the University of Oxford, 2011. It was sparked by an…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Dialogs (Language), Politics of Education
Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2009
The Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) and the field of philosophy of education seemed like a natural junction in this author's life. They provided a means by which he could begin to think about the relations between education and his own experiences as a student and teacher, and philosophy. Peters has been editor of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Corporations, Government Role
Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2008
This paper examines the underlying genres of philosophy focusing especially on their pedagogical forms to emphasize the materiality and historicity of genres, texts and writing. It focuses briefly on the history of the essay and its relation to the journal within the wider history of scientific communication, and comments on the standardized forms…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Philosophy, Periodicals
Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2008
This paper argues that Wittgenstein considered himself an exile and indeed was a self-imposed exile from his native Vienna; that this condition of exile is important for understanding Wittgenstein the man and his philosophy; and that exile as a condition has become both a central characteristic condition of late modernity (as much as alienation…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism, Postmodernism, Self Concept
Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2007
There is no more central issue to education than thinking and reasoning. Certainly, such an emphasis chimes with the rationalist and cognitive deep structure of the Western educational tradition. The contemporary tendency reinforced by cognitive science is to treat thinking ahistorically and aculturally as though physiology, brain structure and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Physiology, Logical Thinking, Cognitive Psychology
Peters, Michael A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2003
Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut argue that "the philosophy of 68" eliminates and leaves no room for a positive rehabilitation of human agency necessary for a workable notion of democracy. In their Preface to the English Translation of "La pensee 68," Ferry and Renaut (1990a, p. xvi), refer to the philosophy of the sixties as a…
Descriptors: Translation, English, Democracy, Critical Theory
