Education and the Growth of Knowledge

Education and the Growth of Knowledge is a collection of original contributions from a group of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education, who sketch the implications of advances in contemporary epistemology for education. 

• New papers on education and social and virtue epistemology contributed by a range of eminent philosophers and philosophers of education 
• Reconceives epistemology in the light of notions from social and virtue epistemology
• Demonstrates that a reconsideration of epistemology in the light of ideas from social and virtue epistemology will in turn re-invigorate the links between epistemology and education 

Ben Kotzee is lecturer in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values at the University of Birmingham. He specializes in applying insights from contemporary epistemology to questions in the philosophy of education. Dr Kotzee has previously written on the nature and development of expertise, educational justice and the constructivism/realism debate. He takes an active interest in professional education and is currently engaged in a study of character and values in the professions with a special focus on the legal profession.