Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology (Journal of Philosophy of Education)

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