Symposium on Sheila Webb’s Interpreting Kant for Education: Dissolving Dualisms and Embodying Mind

Kant’s influence on the development of philosophy is beyond question, and it is hard to think of the philosophy of education without some sense of Kant in the background. Yet simplified exegeses and synoptic accounts abound, making for a ‘Kantian’ picture that readily succumbs to caricature. Interpreting Kant for Education exposes the errors in this picture. Through a spiralling series of arguments, Sheila Webb’s monograph dismantles the sclerotic dualisms of fact/value, subject/object, and body/mind that have done much to harm education. It reengages Kant in the wider analytic tradition and provides a secure footing for better educational research and practice.

Sheila Webb is a freelance researcher and author of Interpreting Kant for Education: Dissolving Dualisms and Embodying Mind (Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2020, 54:6). She will be accompanied by a panel of speakers.