Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education
This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universityies: The Recovery of An Idea. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects as human nature and the study of the humanities, interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary study, information systems and the concept of a library, the prospects for e-learning, reforming universities, intellectual integrity and the realities of funding, and spiritual values and the knowledge economy.

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Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education
This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universityies: The Recovery of An Idea. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects as human nature and the study of the humanities, interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary study, information systems and the concept of a library, the prospects for e-learning, reforming universities, intellectual integrity and the realities of funding, and spiritual values and the knowledge economy.

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Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education

Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education

by Gordon Graham
Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education

Institution of Intellectual Values: Realism and Idealism in Higher Education

by Gordon Graham

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This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universityies: The Recovery of An Idea. It contains chapters on the history of universities; the value of university education; the nature of research; the management and funding of universities plus additional essays on such subjects as human nature and the study of the humanities, interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary study, information systems and the concept of a library, the prospects for e-learning, reforming universities, intellectual integrity and the realities of funding, and spiritual values and the knowledge economy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845401009
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Publication date: 05/01/2007
Series: St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.27(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Gordon Graham is Director of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has taught philosophy at the Universityies of St Andrews and Aberdeen, and at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has published extensively on a wide range of philosophical topics.

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