Michael Hand es profesor de filosofía de la educación cuya investigación profundiza en las dimensiones moral, política, religiosa y filosófica del aprendizaje. Explora cuestiones críticas sobre la educación para el patriotismo, la naturaleza y los objetivos de la educación religiosa y la justificación de la escolarización basada en la fe. Su trabajo también examina la autonomía como objetivo educativo, el papel de la filosofía en las escuelas y los enfoques para abordar temas controvertidos dentro del aula. Su experiencia ofrece valiosas perspectivas sobre los fundamentos filosóficos más profundos de la práctica educativa.
The book presents an innovative theory of moral education, aiming to address persistent conflicts among educational theorists. It provides a comprehensive exploration of the objectives and techniques involved in teaching morality, offering a fresh perspective on how moral education can be effectively implemented.
The new edition of a comprehensive and rigorous but concise introduction to symbolic logic. Logic Primer offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to symbolic logic, providing concise definitions of key concepts, illustrative examples, and exercises. After presenting the definitions of validity and soundness, the book goes on to introduce a formal language, proof theory, and formal semantics for sentential logic (chapters 1–3) and for first-order predicate logic (chapters 4–6) with identity (chapter 7). For this third edition, the material has been reorganized from four chapters into seven, increasing the modularity of the text and enabling teachers to choose alternative paths through the book. New exercises have been added, and all exercises are now arranged to support students moving from easier to harder problems. Its spare and elegant treatment makes Logic Primer unique among textbooks. It presents the material with minimal chattiness, allowing students to proceed more directly from topic to topic and leaving instructors free to cover the subject matter in the way that best suits their students. The book includes more than thirty exercise sets, with answers to many of them provided in an appendix. The book’s website allows students to enter and check proofs, truth tables, and other exercises interactively.