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ERIC Number: EJ1252091
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8249
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Cognitive Goods, Open Futures and the Epistemology of Education
Carter, J. Adam
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v54 n2 p449-466 Apr 2020
What cognitive goods do children plausibly have a right to in an education? In attempting to answer this question, I begin with a puzzle centred around Joel Feinberg's observation that a denial of certain cognitive goods can violate a child's right to an open future. I show that propositionalist, dispositionalist and objectualist characterisations of the kinds of cognitive goods children have a right to, run in to problems. A promising alternative is then proposed and defended, one that is inspired in the main by Wittgenstein's 'hinge' epistemology as developed in his posthumous "On Certainty."
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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