Israel Scheffler

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Israel Scheffler is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University

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Israel Scheffler

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#576

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#1148

Historical Rank

#266

USA Rank

Logic

#413

World Rank

#791

Historical Rank

#166

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PhD Philosophy Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Israel Scheffler was an American philosopher of science and of education. Career Scheffler held B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from Brooklyn College, an M.H.L. and a D.H.L. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He defended his doctoral thesis, On Quotation, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, where he studied with Nelson Goodman and began teaching that year at Harvard University, where he spent his career. He retired in 1992. His main interests lay in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society.

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Israel Scheffler's Published Works

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Published Works

Science And Subjectivity (1967) (379)
The language of education (1961) (256)
Reason and teaching (1973) (185)
The anatomy of inquiry (1963) (174)
Conditions of Knowledge: An Introduction to Epistemology and Education (1983) (166)
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (1977) (131)
Conditions of knowledge (1965) (130)
Philosophical Models of Teaching (1965) (91)
The nature of teaching : schools and the work of teachers (1970) (78)
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions : And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education (1991) (76)
Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead and Dewey (1976) (62)
Playing the dozens. (1948) (52)
Beyond the letter : a philosophical inquiry into ambiguity, vagueness, and metaphor in language (1981) (49)
EXPLANATION, PREDICTION AND ABSTRACTION * (1957) (47)
On Synonymy and Indirect Discourse (1955) (46)
THOUGHTS ON TELEOLOGY* (1959) (44)
An Inscriptional Approach to Indirect Quotation (1954) (43)
Visions of Jewish Education (2003) (38)
Of Human Potential: An Essay in the Philosophy of Education (1985) (36)
Justifying Curriculum Decisions (1958) (35)
Vision and Revolution: A Postscript on Kuhn (1972) (31)
The Anatomy of Inquiry : Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science (1965) (30)
My Quarrels with Nelson Goodman (2001) (25)
Philosophy and the curriculum (1992) (23)
On the Education of Policymakers. (1984) (22)
Symbolic Worlds: Art, Science, Language, Ritual (1996) (21)
On Justification and Commitment (1954) (20)
Reflections on Educational Relevance (1969) (18)
Basic Mathematical Skills: Some Philosophical and Practical Remarks (1976) (18)
Genetic approach to DNA replication and its control in Escherichia coli. (1972) (17)
Computers at School (1986) (16)
Inquiries: Philosophical studies of language, science, & learning (1986) (15)
A Plea For Plurealism (2000) (15)
An improvement in the theory of projectibility (1970) (14)
What Is Said to Be (1958) (13)
Selective confirmation and the ravens: A reply to Foster (1972) (13)
IV.—What is Said to be (1959) (12)
Philosophy and Education Modern Readings (1966) (12)
Logic and Art: Essays in Honour of Nelson Goodman. (1973) (12)
The Art of Translation (2003) (11)
Moral Education and the Democratic Ideal (1997) (11)
Reflections on the Ramsey Method (1968) (10)
In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals) : And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education (2010) (10)
Ten Myths of Metaphor (1988) (10)
Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience (1994) (9)
Group Position and Attitude Toward Authority (1950) (9)
Visions of Jewish Education: The Concept of the Educated Person: With Some Applications to Jewish Education (2003) (9)
The wonderful worlds of Goodman (1979) (9)
Inductive Inference: A New Approach. (1958) (9)
Theories of value and problems of education (1970) (8)
Work, Education, and Leadership Essays in the Philosophy of Education (1995) (8)
Gallery of Scholars: A Philosopher's Recollections (2005) (8)
Philosophy and Education (1958) (8)
Logic and Art Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman. Richard Rudner and Israel Scheffler, Editors. -- (1976) (7)
Worlds of Truth (2009) (6)
University Scholarship and the Education of Teachers (1968) (6)
Ritual and reference (1981) (5)
Four questions of fiction (1982) (5)
Of human potential (1985) (5)
The New Dualism: Psychological and Physical Terms (1950) (5)
Jewish Education and Jewish Continuity: Prospects and Limitations (2000) (5)
On Ryle's Theory of Propositional Knowledge (1968) (5)
University Scholarship and the Education of Teachers (1973)* (2012) (4)
Symbolic worlds: Reference and play (1992) (4)
"Playing the Dozens": a note. (1948) (4)
Philosophy of Education: Some Recent Contributions (1980) (3)
Moral Education beyond Moral Reasoning. (1990) (3)
A rejoinder on confirmation (1961) (3)
EXPLANATIONS, DESIRES, AND INSCRIPTIONS (1971) (3)
Inscriptionalism and Indirect Quotation (1958) (3)
Action and Commitment (2009) (3)
Logic & Art Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman (1973) (2)
Vice into Virtue, or Seven Deadly Sins of Education Redeemed (1989) (2)
Mainsprings of metaphor (1987) (2)
Sex difference in emotional reaction to the news. (1947) (2)
Symbolic worlds: Science and the world (1996) (1)
My Love Affair with Hebrew (2009) (1)
Is the Dewey-like Notion of Desirability Absurd? (1954) (1)
Aspects of ritual (1996) (1)
Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge (2009) (1)
Reason and Teaching (Routledge Revivals) (2014) (1)
Verifiability in History: A Reply to Miss Masi (1950) (1)
Some responses to Goodman's comments in starmaking (1997) (1)
Visions of Jewish Education: Supplement: Israel Scheffler (2003) (1)
Symbolic worlds: Denotation and mention-selection (1996) (1)
Envisioning Jewish Education (2003) (1)
Philosophies-of and the curriculum (2010) (1)
Philosophy at Harvard (1990) (1)
Projectibility: A Postscript (1982) (1)
Symbol, ritual and cognition (1996) (1)
Reasoning and Teaching (1974) (1)
A note on confirmation (1960) (1)
Scheffler, Israel, "On the Education of Policymakers," Harvard Educational Review, 54(May, 1984), 152-165.* (1984) (0)
Visions of Jewish Education: The Visions Project: Participants and Forums (2003) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Symbol, play, and art (1996) (0)
Computers at School? (1986) (0)
Ambiguity in language (1996) (0)
Belief and Method (2009) (0)
Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals): A Philosophical Inquiry Into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Methaphor in Language (1979) (0)
Supercalifragilistic Reduction: A Reply to Jan Berg (1971) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Worries about worldmaking (1996) (0)
RESPONSES TO PROFESSORS PEKARSKY, YOB, AND BROWN (1995) (0)
Visions of Jewish Education: Conclusion: The Courage to Envision (2003) (0)
Back Matter (1990) (0)
Human Nature and Potential (AESA R. Freeman Butts Lecture--1982). (1983) (0)
World-features and discourse-dependence (1996) (0)
Rejoinder to Levi’s Reply (1983) (0)
Visions of Jewish Education: Six Visions: An Overview (2003) (0)
About the Mandel Foundation (2003) (0)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1959) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Symbol and reference (1996) (0)
Some contributions of philosophy to education (2018) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Mainsprings of metaphor (with Catherine Z. Elgin) (1996) (0)
D. J. O'Connor's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1959) (2014) (0)
Abstracts fromthe British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1968) (0)
The Anatomy of Inquiry (Routledge Revivals) : Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science (2014) (0)
Philosophy of education and the new activism (1970) (2014) (0)
Fallible is as Fallible Does (1983) (0)
Philosophy of Science . Gustav Bergmann. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1957. 181 pp. $4.75. (1957) (0)
The Project in Operation (2003) (0)
Reply to Gareth Matthews (1981) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Worlds and versions (1996) (0)
Supplement: Michael A. Meyer (2003) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Ritual change (1996) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Ambiguity in pictures (1996) (0)
Scheffler, Israel, "Philosophy and the Curriculum," pp. 31-41 in his Reason and Teaching . Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. (1973) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Introduction and background (1996) (0)
Scheffler, Israel, "Human Nature and Potential (AESA R. Freeman Butts Lecture-1982)," Educational Studies, 3(Fall, 1983), 211-224. (1983) (0)
Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals) : An Essay in the Philosophy of Education (2013) (0)
Emotion and Cognition (2009) (0)
Symbolic worlds: Art, science, religion (1996) (0)
Metaphor and context (1996) (0)
Postscript on Inscriptionalism (1965) (0)

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