TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakhurst,David
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - The formation of reason
T2  - Journal of philosophy of education book series
SN  - 9781444395600
AV  - BD418.3 .B355 2011
U1  - 128/.33 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - McDowell, John Henry.
KW  - McDowell, John,
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Reason
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- What Can Philosophy Tell Us About How History Made the Mind? -- Social Constructionism -- Self and Other -- Freedom, Reflection and the Sources of Normativity -- Exploring the Space of Reasons -- Reason and Its Limits: Music, Mood and Education -- Education Makes Us What We Are -- References -- Index
N2  - "In The Formation of Reason, David Bakhurst expounds and defends a socio-historical account of the human mind. Inspired by the work of the influential philosopher John McDowell, Bakhurst maintains that the distinctive character of human psychological powers resides in our responsiveness to reasons, a capacity that develops in children as they are initiated into traditions of thinking and reasoning. In this process of formation (or Bildung), children enter 'the space of reasons' to become rational agents in self-conscious control of their thoughts and actions. In addition to exploring McDowell's ideas, Bakhurst draws on a variety of thinkers - including Davidson, Hacking, Ilyenkov, Strawson, Vygotsky, Wiggins, and Wittgenstein - to illuminate questions of personhood, identity, learning, rationality, and freedom. Offering an intellectually stimulating exploration of the conceptual foundations of the philosophy of education, The Formation of Reason breathes fresh life into a familiar but controversial idea: that the end of education is the cultivation of autonomy"--
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444395600
ER  -