Introduction

toward a philosophy of higher education

Aaron Stoller

Eli Kramer

pp. 1-23

in: Aaron Stoller, Eli Kramer (eds), Contemporary philosophical proposals for the university, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Abstract

This essay intends to create a path forward for philosophical work in higher education that is sensitive to the discursive, organizational, economic, epistemic, and political cultures of the institution. This essay will therefore not provide a grand theory of higher education that might be overlaid onto university practice. Instead, as we will argue, any viable philosophy of higher education must not only recognize but also be prepared to account for and harness the heterogeneity of theoretical, organizational, economic, epistemic, and professional perspectives that are the ground of institutions of higher learning.