Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs) - Softcover

Graham, Gordon

 
9781845401009: Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs)

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This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universities: The Recovery of An Idea. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects as human nature and the study of the humanities, interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary study, information systems and the concept of a library, the prospects for e-learning, reforming universities, intellectual integrity and the realities of funding, and spiritual values and the knowledge economy.

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Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has taught philosophy at the Universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen, and at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has published extensively on a wide range of philosophical topics.

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ISBN 10:  184540002X ISBN 13:  9781845400026
Verlag: Imprint Academic, 2005
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