Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology

Education and the Growth of Knowledge is a collection of original contributions from a group of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education, who sketch the implications of advances in contemporary epistemology for education. 

• New papers on education and social and virtue epistemology contributed by a range of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education 
• Reconceives epistemology in the light of notions from social and virtue epistemology
• Demonstrates that a reconsideration of epistemology in the light of ideas from social and virtue epistemology will in turn re-invigorate the links between epistemology and education 

Content:
Chapter 1 Epistemic Dependence in Testimonial Belief, in the Classroom and Beyond (pages 14–35): Sanford Goldberg
Chapter 2 Learning from Others (pages 54–19): David Bakhurst
Chapter 3 Anscombe's ‘Teachers’ (pages 75–21): Jeremy Wanderer
Chapter 4 Can Inferentialism Contribute to Social Epistemology? (pages 76–91): Jan Derry
Chapter 5 Epistemic Virtue and the Epistemology of Education (pages 92–105): Duncan Pritchard
Chapter 6 Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice (pages 106–123): Jason Baehr
Chapter 7 Detecting Epistemic Vice in Higher Education Policy: Epistemic Insensibility in the Seven Solutions and the REF (pages 124–144): Heather Battaly
Chapter 8 Three Different Conceptions of Know‐How and Their Relevance to Professional and Vocational Education (pages 145–165): Christopher Winch
Chapter 9 The Epistemic Value of Diversity (pages 166–178): Emily Robertson