Israel Scheffler (November 25, 1923 – February 16, 2014) was an American

philosopher of science A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

and

of education The tractate ''Of Education'' was published in 1644, first appearing anonymously as a single eight-page quarto sheet (Ainsworth 6). Presented as a letter written in response to a request from the Puritan educational reformer Samuel Hartlib, it r ...

Career

Scheffler held B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

, an M.H.L. and a D.H.L.(hon.) from the

Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studie ...

.Department of Philosophy
Professor Emeritus Israel Scheffler
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Website'', retrieved October 18, 2010 He defended his doctoral thesis, ''On Quotation'', at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, where he studied with

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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 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the

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and the

Charles S. Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...

Society.

Publications

His works have been translated from English into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Persian.Scheffler Israel's 'Books'
''WorldCat.Org'', retrieved April 23, 2010

Books

*Scheffler, Israel. ''The Anatomy of Inquiry; Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science''. New York: Knopf, 1963. OCLC 526705 *Scheffler, Israel. ''Philosophy and Education: Modern Reading''s. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1966. OCLC 397699249 *Scheffler, Israel.'' Science and Subjectivity''. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. OCLC 374512 *Scheffler, Israel. ''Conditions of Knowledge: An Introduction to Epistemology and Education''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978., *Scheffler, Israel. ''The Language of Education''. Springfield: Ill, 1983. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey''. New York: Humanities Press, 1971. *Scheffler, Israel, Nelson Goodman, and Richard Rudner. ''Logic & Art''. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1972. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Reason and Teaching''. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. *Scheffler, Israel.'' Conditions of Knowledge''. 1978. OCLC 464010934 *Scheffler, Israel.'' Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Metaphor in Language.'' International library of philosophy and scientific method. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Of Human Potential: An Essay in the Philosophy of Education''. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Inquiries: Philosophical Studies of Language, Science, & Learning''. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co, 1986. *Scheffler, Israel. ''In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education.'' New York: Routledge, 1991. 9780415903646 (a Collection of articles spanning 1974 to 1990.) *Scheffler, Israel. ''Symbolic Worlds: Art, Science, Language, Ritual''. Cambridge ngland Cambridge University Press, 1997. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge''. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Autobiographies

*Scheffler, Israel. ''Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience.'' Philosophy and education, v. 5. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. *Scheffler, Israel. ''Gallery of Scholars: A Philosopher's Recollections''. Philosophy and education, v. 13. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

References

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