Welcome!

After a brief hiatus, I have brought back my homepage. Because of the adoption of an especially noxious intellectual property policy, I removed my pages and all of their associated content in (futile) protest. Now, however, there are more compelling reasons (not to be elaborated here) for their re-appearance.

Philosophy and the nature of education:

Sometimes it is easier to show what something is not, than to say (precisely) what something is. Hence, philosophy cannot be identified with either science or religion, although there are (significant) moments of overlap. Likewise, education is not just information, let alone indoctrination. Paradoxically, education occurs only in the individual, although mediated by the social, when the alien is introjected and transformed (ultimately) into one's own. A further complication is that both philosophy and education, in its higher forms, are essentially identified with (or isolated within) the contemporary university.