Israel Scheffler

Israel Scheffler (born November 25, 1923) is an American philosopher of science and of education. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from Brooklyn College, an M.H.L. and a D.H.L.(hon.) from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.^[1] He defended his doctoral thesis, "On quotation", at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, where he studied with Nelson Goodman^[2] and began teaching that year at Harvard University, where he spent his career. He retired in 1992.^[3] His main interests lie in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society.^[1]

Publications

His works have been translated from English into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, and Japanese.^[4]

Books

• Scheffler, Israel. The Anatomy of Inquiry; Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science. New York: Knopf, 1963. OCLC 526705
  • French translation Anatomie de la science : etude philosophique de l explication et de la confirmation. Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 1966.
  • Italian translation, Anatomia della ricerca : studi filosofici nella teoria della scienze Milano : Il Saggiatore, 1972.
• Scheffler, Israel. Philosophy and Education: Modern Readings. 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., ISBN 9780226736686
• Scheffler, Israel. The Language of Education. Springfield: Ill, 1983. ISBN 9780398016562
  • Japanese translation, 教育のことば : その哲学的分析 = The language of education / Kyōiku no kotoba : sono tetsugakuteki bunseki Tōkyō : Tōyōkan Shuppansha, 1981.ISBN 9784491003191
  • Chinese translation, 敎育的語言/Jiao yu de yu yan. Dang dai si chao xi lie cong shu, 55. Taibei Shi: Gui guan tu shu gu fen you xian gong si, 1994. ISBN 9789575517021
  • Spanish translation, El lenguaje de la educación Buenos Aires : El Ateneo, 1970.
  • German translation, Die Sprache der Erziehung Düsseldorf, Pädagogischer Verlag, Schwann, 1971.
  • French translation, Le langage de l'éducation [Paris] : Klincksieck, ©2003.
• Scheffler, Israel. Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey. New York: Humanities Press, 1971. ISBN 9780391003514
• Scheffler, Israel, Nelson Goodman, and Richard Rudner. Logic & Art. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1972.
• Scheffler, Israel. Reason and Teaching. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. ISBN 9780672612534
• Scheffler, Israel. Conditions of Knowledge. 1978. OCLC 464010934
  • Hebrew translation, Tenaʻe ha-yediʻah : mavo le-torat ha-haḳarah ṿeha-filosofyah shel ha-ḥinukh. Jerusalem, 1980.
  • Japanese translation, 教育から見た知識の条件 / Kyōiku kara mita chishiki no jōken. Tōkyō: Tōyōkan Shuppansha, 1987.
• 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. ISBN 9780710003157
  • Spanish translation, Más allá de la letra Madrid : Visor Distribuciones, ©1991.
• Scheffler, Israel. Of Human Potential: An Essay in the Philosophy of Education. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. ISBN 9780710205711
  • Japanese translation, ヒューマン・ポテンシャル : 敎育哲学からの考察 Hyūman potensharu: kyōiku tetsugaku kara no kōsatsu. Tōkyō: Keisō Shobō, 1994.
  • Chinese translation, 人类的潜能 : 一项教育哲学的研究 Ren lei de qian neng: yi xiang jiao yu zhe xue de yan jiu . Shanghai: Hua dong shi fan da xue, 2006.
• Scheffler, Israel. Inquiries: Philosophical Studies of Language, Science, & Learning. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co, 1986. ISBN 9780872200135
• 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 [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780521564250
• Scheffler, Israel. Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 9781405191708

Autobiography

• Scheffler, Israel. Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience. Philosophy and education, v. 5. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. ISBN 9780792332329
• Scheffler, Israel. Gallery of Scholars: A Philosopher's Recollections. Philosophy and education, v. 13. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. ISBN 9781402027109

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