In Educating Reason, Harvey Siegel presented the case regarding rationality and critical thinking as fundamental education ideals. In these essays written since that time, he develops this view, responds to the major criticisms raised against it, and engages those critics in dialogue. Siegel addresses main currents in contemporary thought, including feminism, postmodernism, and multiculturalism.

Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent decades, however, philosophical thinking about education has largely fallen off the philosophical radar screen. Philosophy of education has lost intimate contact with the parent discipline to a regrettably large extent--to the detriment of both.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education is intended to serve as a general introduction to key issues in the field, to further the philosophical...