C O N T E N T S

Philosophical Pluralism: The Promise of Fragmentation
Frank Margonis

PRESIDENTIAL ESSAY

Beyond Moral Stories
Betty A. Sichel
Moral Stories: How Much Can We Learn from Them and
Is It Enough?
Michael S. Katz

FEATURED ESSAYS

Neutrality in Education and Derrida's Call for "Double Duty"
Denise Egéa-Kuehne
The Double-Bind or "Double Duty"
Hilary E. Davis

When You Know It, and I Know It, What Is It We Know?
Pragmatic Realism and the Epistemologically Absolute
Christine McCarthy
Really Living in Space-time
Craig A. Cunningham

Theoretical and Practical Reasoning: An Intractable Dualism?
James E. McClellan, Jr.
The Freedom of the Playpen
C.J.B. Macmillan

Voluntary Segregation: Gender and Race as Legitimate
Grounds for Differential Treatment and Freedom of Association
Stacy Smith
The Complex Ethics of Separate Schools
Kevin McDonough

ESSAYS

Rationality and Redemption: Ideology, Indoctrination, and
Learning Communities
H.A. Alexander
Can Reasons for Rationality Be Redeemed?
Harvey Siegel

"But That Is Not What I Mean"
Criticizing With Care and Respect
Barbara Applebaum
Criticizing With Care and With Respect
For What We Are All Up Against
Ann Diller

Education, Not Initiation
Gert Biesta
Narrowing the Gap Between Difference and Identity
Frank Pignatelli

Sophistry, dialectic, and Teacher Education:
A Reinterpretation of Plato's Meno
Deron R. Boyles
Sophistry and Wisdom in Plato's Meno
Terry Hall

Deconstructing "Difference" and the
Difference This Makes to Education
Nicholas C. Burbules
Humpty Dumpty
An Ovular Model of Resistance to Modernist Recidivism
Kathryn Pauly Morgan

Varieties of Incontinence: Towards and Aristotelian
Approach to Moral Weakness in Moral Education
David Carr
Akrasia: Irremediable but not Unapproachable
Victor L. Worsfold

Of Fractious Traditions and Family Resemblances in
Philosophy of Education
Pradeep A. Dhillon
Epistemological Reversals Between Chisholm and Lyotard
Michael G. Gunzenhauser

Habermas and Critical Thinking
Ben Endres
Decentering and Reasoning
Mark Weinstein

The Goals of Multicultural Education:
A Critical Re-evaluation
Walter Feinberg
Multiculturalism and a Politics of Persistence
Barbara Houston
Taylor, Equality, and the Metaphysics of Persons
Kenneth A. Strike

Reading Phaedrus Like a Girl
Misfires and Rhizomes in Reading Performance
Zelia Gregoriou
Concerning Zelia Gregoriou's "Reading Phadrus Like a Girl"
Greg Whitlock

The Moral Presuppositions of Multicultural Education
Robert D. Heslep
Tolerance and Intolerance
Gricean Intention and Doing Right by Our Students
Paul A. Wagner

Justifying Music in General Education:
Belief in Search of Reason
Estelle R. Jorgensen
Can the Justification of Music Education be Justified?
Iris M. Yob

Beginning Again:
Teaching, Natality, and Social Transformation
Natasha Levinson
Teaching In/For the Enunciative Present
Wendy Kohli

On the Nature of Environmental Education
(Anthropocentrism versus Non-anthropocentrism:
The Irrelevant Debate)
Huey-li Li
The Relevance of the Anthropocentric-Ecocentric Debate
Dale T. Snauwaert

Education in the Mode of Information:
Some Philosophical Considerations
James D. Marshall
Pixels, Decenteredness, Marketization, Totalism, and
Ingmar Bergmann's Cry for Help
Richard Brosio

Performance Anxiety: Sexuality and School Controversy
Cris Mayo
Opening the Closet Door:
Sexualities Education and "Active Ignorance"
Maureen Ford

Reconceiving the Foundations of Education:
An Ecological Model
Paul Morgan
Counter the Dangers of Education
Xiaodan Huang

Physical and Cultural Dimensions of Horizon
Jana Noel
The Glass Bead Game
Alexander Sidorkin

Teacher Beliefs and Student Learning
Robert E. Orton
Can Hypocrites Be Good Teachers?
Bruce B. Suttle

Democracy, Education and the Critical Citizen
Tapio Puolimatka
Democracy and the Foundations of Morality
Randall R. Curren

The Paradoxes of Education in Rorty's Liberal Utopia
Rob Reich
Utopia Flawed? A Response To Reich On Rorty
Shirley Pendlebury

Dewey's Conception of "Virtue" and its Educational Implications
Suzanne Rice
Dewey on Virtue
Timothy H. Smith

Infinitely Interesting: Bloom, Kierkegaard, and the Educational Quest
Patricia Rohrer
Education's Ills and the Vanity of the Philosopher
Paul Farber

Moral Dimensions of Classroom Discourse: A Deweyan Perspective
Fay Rosner
Moral Reflection and Moral Education
John F. Covaleskie

Dewey's Idea of Sympathy and the Development of the Ethical Self:
A Japanese Perspective
Naoko Saito
Dewey Without Doing
Donald Arnstine

Good Sex as the Aim of Sexual Education
Jan Steutel and Ben Spiecker
The Politics of the "Good" in Good Sexuality Education
Dwight Boyd and Alexander McKay

A Rhetorical Revolution for Philosophy of Education
Lynda Stone
A Revolution By Any Other Name
Jaylynne N. Hutchinson

Political Pragmatism and Educational Inquiry
Audrey Thompson
No More Method! A (Polemical) Response to Audrey Thompson
Alven M. Neiman

Moral Education and Inspiration Through Theatre
Timothy S. Valentine
Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?
And Other Questions the Jesuits Left for Me
Kal Alston