Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University

Aaron Stoller is Director of First Year Experience at Colorado College, USA.
Eli Kramer is an affiliated researcher at the Department of the Philosophy of Culture at the University of Warsaw Institute of Philosophy, Poland. He is also a Philosophy PhD Candidate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.

This edited collection brings together a robust range of philosophers who offer theoretically and critically informed proposals regarding the aims, policies, and structures of the university. The collection fills a major gap in the landscape of higher education theory and practice while concurrently reviving a long and often forgotten discourse within the discipline of philosophy. It includes philosophers from across the globe representing disparate philosophical schools, as well as various career stages, statuses, and standpoints within the university. There is also a diversity in method, approach and style, which varies from personal narratives and case studies, to philosophical genealogies, to traditional philosophical essays, and to systematic theories. The collection can serve as a theoretical resource for critically minded administrators and faculty who wish to analyze and change policies and structures at their home institutions. It will introduce them to a wide range of possible educational imaginaries, as well as provide them with productive suggestions for pragmatic change on campuses.

Draws contemporary philosophers into a critical conversation about higher learning with novel and original contributions to the field of philosophy

Part I. The Problematic Situation: Challenges Facing Higher Education
Chapter 1. Postmodern Worldmaking and the Unanimous Academy
Chapter 2. Neoliberalism, Technology, and the University
Chapter 3. Promoting More than Just 'Diversity' at Colleges and Universities
Part II. The Wellspring of Experience: Reflections on Robust Higher Education
Chapter 6. Toward a Philosophy and Practice of Liberal Education
Chapter 7. The Conversation of a University
Part III. Generalization: Reconstructive Proposals for the University
Chapter 8. Culture and the University: An Ecological Approach
Chapter 9. Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection
Chapter 10. An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education
Part IV. Return to Experience: Reconstruction Put into Practice
Chapter 11. Remaking the Academy: The Potential and the Challenge of Transdisciplinary Collaborative Engagement
Part V. Future Inquiry: Higher Education in the Coming Century
Chapter 12. The Coming Revolution in (Higher) Education: Process, Time, and Singularity