WITTGENSTEIN, EDUCATION AND THE PROBLEM OF RATIONALITY.

Intro
Preface
References
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Works
Contents
Part IHistorical Background
1 Introduction: Two Conceptions of Rationality
(a) Overview of Central Arguments
(b) The Notion of Absolute Rationality
(c) The Notion of Constitutive Rationality
(d) Chapter Summary
Bibliography
2 The Problem of Rationality and the Tradition of Philosophy-as-Epistemology
(a) The Problem of Rationality
(b) The Reflexive and Linguistic Turns
(c) Wittgenstein and the Rise of Linguistic Philosophy
Bibliography

Part IIRationality and Philosophy of Education
3 The Autonomy of Analytic Philosophy of Education
(a) Introduction
(b) The Autonomy of Analytic Philosophy of Education
(c) The Method of Conceptual Analysis and the Importance of Context
References
4 Three Theories of Knowledge in Education
(a) Introduction and the Analytic Theory of Philosophy of Education
(b) The Marxist Critique of Analytic Philosophy of Education and the "Knowledge as Production" Thesis
The Marxist Critique of Analytic Philosophy of Education
The Knowledge as Production Thesis

(C) Young's Epistemology: The Sociology of Knowledge Thesis
(d) Towards a Reconciliation of Structuralism and Humanism
References
Part IIIConstitutive Rationality and Historicism
5 The Force of Historicism in the Philosophy of Science
(a) Two Conceptions of Rationality Re-Visited
(b) Foundationalist (Absolutist) Epistemology
(c) Non-Foundationalism-Popper's Critical Rationalism
(d) The Relevance of the History of Science: Kuhn's "Paradigms"
(e) Lakatos' Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
(f) The "Historicist" Turn: New Directions

(G) Postscript: Educational Theory and the "Historicist" Turn
References
6 Hermeneutics, Social Theory and Education
(a) The Rise of Modern Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Happening of Tradition
(b) The Prehistory of Modern Hermeneutics
(c) Gadamer's Hermeneutic Philosophy
(d) The Critical Hermeneutics of Apel and Habermas
(e) Education, Hermeneutics and the Model of Dialogue
References
7 An End-Paper: Beyond "The Education of Reason"-Dewey, Wittgenstein and Foucault
(a) An Historicist Approach to Philosophy of Education

(B) John Dewey, Pragmatism and American Liberalism
(c) Wittgenstein, Liberal Education and Analytical Philosophy of Education
(d) Michel Foucault, Governmentality and Neoliberal Rationality in Education
(e) Rationality as a Language-Game
References