Michael Hand ist Professor für Bildungstheorie, dessen Forschung sich mit den moralischen, politischen, religiösen und philosophischen Dimensionen des Lernens befasst. Er untersucht kritische Fragen zur Erziehung zum Patriotismus, zur Natur und zu den Zielen des Religionsunterrichts und zur Rechtfertigung von Glaubensschulen. Seine Arbeit befasst sich auch mit Autonomie als Bildungsziel, Philosophie in Schulen und dem Umgang mit kontroversen Themen im Klassenzimmer. Seine Expertise bietet wertvolle Einblicke in die tieferen philosophischen Grundlagen der Bildungspraxis.
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.