Contact Information

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College of Education
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

• Ph.D., Education, The Ohio State University, 1992
• M.A., Education, The Ohio State University, 1991
• M.A., Biology, University of Colorado, 1980
• B.S., Biology, Quinnipiac College, 1976

• Social Foundations of Education

Professional Organization Memberships

• American Philosophical Association
• Philosophy of Education Society
• Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
• John Dewey Society
• American Educational Studies Association

Recent Publications

• Meaning, Mind and Knowledge: A Pragmatic View. Philosophy of Education Yearbook: 2007, UIUC Press.
• The Quest for Transcendence in Dewey's Pragmatism, or, The View Not Held. Studies in Philosophy and Education, Kluwer.
• Knowing Truth: Peirce's Epistemology in an Educational Context. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2005, Blackwell Publishing.
• Claiming to Know: Objectivity, Truth and Science. Philosophy of Education Yearbook: 2001, UIUC PRess.
• (2000). Deweyan Pragmatism and the Quest for True Belief. Educational Theory.
• (2000). Science Education: Constructing a True View of the Real World? Philosophy of Education.
• (1999). Dewey's Ethics: Philosophy or Science? Educational Theory.
• (1997). Democratic Education, Sans Student Enfranchisement?
  The Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society.
• (1996). Does "The Knowing" Alter "The Known"? On The Troubling Relation of Facts and Ideas in a Deweyan Epistemology. Education and Culture: The Journal of the John Dewey Society.
• (1996). What In The World is "Critical Thinking", And, Is It Generalizable?
  Educational Theory.

• Philosophical Pragmatism, Philosophy of John Dewey
• Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
• Professional Ethics
• Philosophy of Education
• Aesthetics

• The Philosophy of John Dewey and Education
• Critical Thinking
• Philosophies of Education
• Philosophy of Mind
• Ethics in Education