By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA.
Lecture 4: Free Will and Determinism, Reason and Emotion, the Mind and the Body. How are anthropology, biology, and psychology important to education?
Previous lectures in the series:
Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance?
Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation Story, the Big Bang Story, and more.
Part Three: Knowledge: Epistemology and Education. If education is about the transmission of knowledge, then what is knowledge? Or if it’s about training young people’s habits of mind, then what about alertness to evidence, skill with logic, and a commitment to reason? Does faith work? Is everything just opinion?
Other lectures in the series forthcoming:
Part Five: Ethics: Values and Education
Part Six: Integrated “Isms” and Education
Part Seven: Idealism, Plato, and Kant, and Education
Part Eight: Realism, Aristotle, and Locke, and Education
Part Nine: Pragmatism, Dewey, and Education
Part Ten: Behaviorism, Skinner, and Education
Part Eleven: Existentialism, Sartre, Camus, and Education
Part Twelve: Objectivism, Rand, Montessori, and Education
Part Thirteen: Marxism, Marx, and Education
Part Fourteen: Postmodernism, Foucault, Giroux, and Education
Part Fifteen: Education as One’s Mission, and Conclusion
Related: Stephen Hicks’s other posts and publications on Education.