Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University

1. Introduction: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education
Aaron Stoller, Eli Kramer

Part I. The Problematic Situation: Challenges Facing Higher Education

2. Postmodern Worldmaking and the Unanimous Academy
Crispin Sartwell

3. Neoliberalism, Technology, and the University: Max Weber’s Concept of Rationalization as a Critique of Online Classes in Higher Education
Gabriel Keehn, Morgan Anderson, Deron Boyles

4. Promoting More than Just “Diversity” at Colleges and Universities
Dwayne A. Tunstall

Part II. The Wellspring of Experience: Reflections on Robust Higher Education

5. En Route: Toward a Philosophy and Practice of Liberal Education
L. Jackson Newell

6. The Conversation of a University
George Allan

Part III. Generalization: Reconstructive Proposals for the University

7. Culture and the University: An Ecological Approach
Ronald Barnett

8. Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection
Martha Nussbaum

9. An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education: Communion as an Alternative to Autonomy, Truth, and Citizenship
Thaddeus Metz

Part IV. Return to Experience: Reconstruction Put into Practice

10. Remaking the Academy: The Potential and the Challenge of Transdisciplinary Collaborative Engagement
Danielle Lake, Amy McFarland, Jessica Jennrich

Part V. Future Inquiry: Higher Education in the Coming Century

11. The Coming Revolution in (Higher) Education: Process, Time, and Singularity
Randall Auxier

Keywords: Education, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics