David Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0671-0719 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 153 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 355 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 150 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Open letter
Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature. By providing independent, site-based verification and engaging local experts, TGBS builds trust, transparency and equity in restoration practice. Its adoption cou…
The Prospect of Unselfing as a Moral Aim in Ethical Theory and Fictional Literature
While it is likely that the notion of ‘unselfing’ as an aim of moral life would nowadays be most readily associated with the celebrated twentieth-century philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, there can also be little doubt that she drew the substance of this idea from Plato. However, as this paper aims to show, the very idea of ‘unselfing’ is far from philosophically unproblematic and at least ambiguous between more and less plausible interpreta…
Utilizing Aboriginal Participatory Action Research-Dadirri-Ganma to Co-Design the Deadly Dental Home
This study aimed to co-design a “Deadly Dental Home” for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (herein referred to as First Nations). Participatory Action Research-Dadirri-Ganma methods utilized respectful listening (Dadirri), self-reflective knowledge sharing (Ganma), and Yarning to design a model of care for the community. Consumers of dental services, community leaders, healthcare providers, and dental service leaders designe…
Dental Service Utilisation Among First Nations’ People in Southeast Queensland
Introduction Accessing dental care is challenging for First Nations Australians due to various barriers, including competing priorities, waiting lists and lack of available culturally appropriate care. This study aims to describe public dental services utilisation and completion of care in First Nations Australians. Methods A retrospective audit of administrative data from public sector dental services was undertaken for a 12‐month period in Sout…
Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice
There could hardly have been a more influential twentieth-century philosophical essay than Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern moral philosophy’, in which she condemned the prevailing and competing ethics of duty and utility of her day and urged moral philosophers to abandon the search for any general conception of ‘morality’ in favour of return to Aristotle’s more particular focus on virtue and virtues as powers or qualities of good human character. Wh…
Las virtudes de Satanás
El interés reciente por la formación del carácter como aspecto clave en la educación moral ha llevado a considerar también los modelos de referencia personales y ficcionales como medios apropiados para este fin. Además, aunque uno pueda albergar serias reservas con respecto a la influencia de los modelos de referencia personales (quizá la que ejercen sobre los jóvenes las personas que estos admiran), la ficción seria se ha visto a menudo como una…
Art and Life
Can art illuminate life or is it just so much irrelevant illusion (or delusion)? Certainly, Plato—the great founding father of Western philosophy—seems to have been largely drawn to the latter view. From Plato onwards, however, this more sceptical perspective seems bedevilled by a range of conceptual conflations and confusions regarding the language and purposes of art. Proceeding by way of critical attention to distinctions between (for example)…
The Practical Wisdom of Phronesis in the Education of Purported Virtuous Character
In the context of the recent revival of virtue ethics, the notion of character formation under the rational guidance of Aristotle's notion of phronesis , or practical wisdom, has been exalted as the principal aim of moral education. However, this is not unproblematic insofar as the promotion of Aristotelian phronesis seems to operate on rather different levels or to be ambivalent between the two rather different (and demonstrably separable) aims …
Love, Knowledge, and Freedom in Pleasantville, Religious Scripture, and Wider Western Literature
Love has long been extolled as a route to human moral and spiritual progress and fulfilment, not only in much past religious literature and narrative but in the more recent work of writers such as the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch. In such texts, however, the sentiment (or virtue) of love is clearly more than just blind or brute passion and presupposes distinctive human capacities for knowledge and free agency. That said, the relationship…
The Transcendent Character of Human Gratitude and its Meaningful Limits
The Transcendent Character of Human Gratitude and its Meaningful Limits
On the Educational Significance and Value of Visual Arts
There can be little doubt, from the enduring contemporary popularity of art galleries and museums, that such visual arts as painting and sculpture are sources of perceptual and emotional satisfaction and pleasure to a large viewing public. Still, given the contemporary unfamiliarity of much of the subject matter of past art and the absence of any clearly comprehensible subject matter in much modern (abstract and other) art, it may be less clear w…
Exploring the effectiveness of image repair tactics
Research into organizational crisis response effectiveness has tended to focus on Western case studies and U.S. samples. There are reasons to believe that audience response to image repair strategy is guided at least in part by broad cultural assumptions, though no research to date has explored cross-cultural comparison. This exploratory study compares U.S. and Middle Eastern audiences to see if individuals from countries and cultures outside the…
Narrative, Knowledge, and Moral Character in Art and Literature
Although the term “narrative” has been subject to very loose usage, it should be clear that scientific theories cannot be considered as such in the same sense as literary and artistic works. But this clearly calls the latter into serious epistemic question. On the one hand, we are often drawn to saying that agents have learned or come to know (morally or otherwise) something from literary or other artistic fictions; on the other hand, their ficti…
Where's the Educational Virtue in Flourishing
Recent philosophy and theory of education have witnessed considerable attention to the notion of flourishing as a benchmark or guiding principle for educational practice. There can also be little doubt that — while not all recent advocates of flourishing have drawn explicitly on Aristotle — a focus on flourishing has emerged in the wake of latter‐day neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics, and contemporary virtue ethicists have indeed been leading educat…
From (Apparently) Feeling to Being Grateful
History to the Max
Steven G. Smith advocates a maximal approach to history by both historians and theorists of history, maintaining that a commitment to fullness or totality should always serve as an ideal. In my review, I try to explain what the author means by this ideal, and consider how practical such an ideal can be. He further maintains that history is mostly about shared action, and is itself an instance of shared action. I have certain reservations about th…
Reflections on Temporal Perspective
In this article I focus on the temporal aspects of the historian's situation: being in the present and representing the past. Writing is a time-bound process. It is in this context that the notion of temporal perspective arises. What follows is a series of reflections, variations on the theme, perhaps, of temporal perspective as it figures in historical writing. The concept of hindsight figures prominently in these reflections. I also deal with e…
Varieties of Virtue Ethics
This book explores recent developments in ethics of virtue. While acknowledging the Aristotelian roots of modern virtue ethics – with its emphasis on the moral importance of character – this collectio
Virtue and Character in Higher Education
Despite much recent concern with the possibilities of moral character education in elementary schooling and professional training, the university and higher educational prospects of such education have only lately received much attention. This paper begins by considering – and largely endorsing – the general case for character education in contexts of pre-adult schooling and adult professional and vocational training. However, it proceeds to argu…
Historical Teleology
The sixteen essays in this volume treat a broad array of topics related to the idea of teleology in history. The majority are not concerned with evaluating or even analyzing arguments for or against the teleological view of history. Their purpose is more to display the wide variety of teleological views. In their introduction, the editors speak of the Enlightenment origins of the teleological view of history, but the volume "seeks to explore that…
On Historicity
Perspectives on Gratitude
The Paradox of Gratitude
Since gratitude is a significant pro-social quality or virtue, it might be (and has been) considered of some educational concern. However, while it clearly needs to be understood as a response that is in some sense required or owed towards benefactors, gratitude would hardly seem genuine unless it is freely and perhaps joyfully given – perhaps on the basis of some specific grateful emotion. Despite some academic appreciation of tension between th…
Cohort Profile
The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a longitudinal study of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 and one of their randomly selected siblings. Wisconsin is located in the upper midwest of the United States and had a population of approximately 14 000 000 in 1957, making it the 14th most populous state at that time. Data spanning almost 60 years allow researchers to link family background, adolescent characteristics…
The philosophy of literature
Table of Contents. Preface. 1 Art. 2 Literature. 3 Authors. 4 Practice. 5 Fiction. 6 Truth. 7 Value. Bibliography of works cited.
Narrative and the Real World
What is the relation between a narrative and the events it depicts? This is one of the questions that have been debated by many contributors to the lively interdisciplinary discussion of narrative in recent years. The debate concerns the truthfulness, in a very broad sense of that term, of narrative accounts. Traditional narrative histories claim to tell us what really happened. Fictional narratives portray events that of course by definition nev…
Population and deforestation
This paper reviews the state of knowledge and develops a conceptual model for researching frontier migration in the developing world with a focus on Latin America. Since only a small fraction of migrants move to forest frontiers, identifying people and place characteristics associated with this phenomenon could usefully inform policies aimed at forest conservation and rural development. Yet population scholars train their efforts on urban and int…
End-of-Life Health Care Planning Among Young-Old Adults
Health care providers may encourage end-of-life preparations by assuaging patients' death anxiety and fostering decision-making autonomy. Initiating discussions about recent deaths of loved ones may be an effective way to trigger patients' own end-of-life preparations
A tale of two roads
Moral Values and the Arts in Environmental Education
There appear to be various respects in which the outdoor environment has been regarded as significant for education in general and moral education in particular. Whereas some educationalists have considered the environment to be an important site of character development, others have regarded attention to conservation and sustainable development as pressing moral educational concerns in a world of widespread human environmental abuse. The followi…
Rival Conceptions of Practice in Education and Teaching
Journal Article Rival Conceptions of Practice in Education and Teaching Get access David Carr David Carr Correspondence: David Carr, Faculty of Education, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 37, Issue 2, May 2003, Pages 253–266, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.00324 Publi…
Is Spousal Caregiving Associated With Enhanced Well-Being? New Evidence From the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
For women, chores such as meal preparation, laundry, and cleaning--but not caregiving per se--are associated with worse experienced well-being than other activities. Findings underscore that there are positive aspects of spousal caregiving for older wives that offset the innately unpleasant nature of household tasks
Family Relationships and Advance Care Planning
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered when patients and their families discuss end-of-life care and make DPAHC designations
Forest Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Physical Education and Value Diversity
In a series of recent papers in the European Physical Education Review Andrew Reid has argued that contemporary discussion of the educational value of physical education has been seriously impeded by a tangle of educational philosophical mistakes - concerning the nature of physical activities and education in general — central to which has been conflation of distinctions between the theoretical and the practical and the educational and the non-ed…
Moral Values and the Teacher
Journal Article Moral Values and the Teacher: beyond the paternal and the permissive Get access David Carr David Carr Correspondence: David Carr, Reader in Education, Moray House Institute of Heriot-Watt University, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 27, Issue 2, December 1993, Pages 193–207, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1…
Educational Philosophy, Theory and Research
Interpretations of educational theory as essentially empirical conceive education and teaching as skill-based technologies which can be scientifically researched. Those in the educational research community who resist this picture nevertheless often regard good educational practice as empirically researchable by more ‘particularistic’ means (for example, action research). However, this chapter argues that such empiricist approaches neglect or dis…
Futures Past
Introduction, by Keith TribePart I: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History Chapter 1 Modernity and the Planes of HistoricityChapter 2 Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical ProcessChapter 3 Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of RevolutionChapter 4 Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein s Essay on the Prussian ConstitutionPart II Theory and Method of the Historic…
The "Fifth Meditation" and Husserl's Cartesianism
Character and Moral Choice in the Cultivation of Virtue
It is central to virtue ethics both that morally sound action follows from virtuous character, and that virtuous character is itself the product of habitual right judgement and choice: that, in short, we choose our moral characters. However, any such view may appear to encounter difficulty in those cases of moral conflict where an agent cannot simultaneously act (say) both honestly and sympathetically, and in which the choices of agents seem to f…
End-of-Life Planning in a Family Context
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered in patient-provider discussions of end-of-life care
Narrative Explanation and Its Malcontents
In this paper I look at narrative as a mode of explanation and at various ways in which the explanatory value of narrative has been criticized. I begin with the roots of narrative explanation in everyday action, experience, and discourse, illustrating it with the help of a simple example. I try to show how narrative explanation is transformed and complicated by circumstances that take us beyond the everyday into such realms as jurisprudence, jour…
Precision vs. Realism on the Framing Continuum
Although largely unrecognized, a close reading of extant experimental research on framing effects reveals that contrasting approaches mark the conceptualization and operationalization of message frames in much contemporary inquiry. One approach strives to maintain factual and logical equivalence while altering the vantage point taken in the story, while the other emphasizes different facts, changing the sources, subjects, and scope of a story as …
Character in Teaching
Qualities of personal character would appear to play a significant role in the professional conduct of teachers. It is often said that we remember teachers as much for the kinds of people they were than for anything they may have taught us, and some kinds of professional expertise may best be understood as qualities of character. After (roughly) distinguishing qualities of character from those of personality, the present paper draws on the resour…
After Kohlberg
Examining Overconsumption, Competitive Consumption, and Conscious Consumption from 1994 to 2004
Taken together, Robert Putnam's work on the decline of social capital (2000) and Juliet Schor's insights about the rise of "the new consumerism" (1999) suggest a shift in values in which our responsibilities as citizens have taken a backseat to our desires as consumers. This article complicates this shift in civic and consumer culture by examining generational differences in overconsumption, competitive consumption, and conscious consumption betw…
Virtue, Mixed Emotions and Moral Ambivalence
Aristotelian virtue ethics invests emotions and feelings with much moral significance. However, the moral and other conflicts that inevitably beset human life often give rise to states of emotional division and ambivalence with problematic implications for any understanding of virtue as complete psychic unity of character and conduct. For one thing, any admission that the virtuous are prey to conflicting passions and desires may seem to threaten …
The Uses of Literacy in Teacher Education
Alasdair MacIntyre identifies two interconnected problems for present day thinking about the nature of educational provision. The first concerns the very possibility of general educatedness in the social and cultural circumstances of modernity; the second concerns the narrow and specialist route down which professional training has proceeded in contemporary post-industrial societies. This paper explores the implications of MacIntyre's views and a…
Rival Conceptions of Spiritual Education
The recent upsurge of interest, political and professional, in the notion of spiritual education would appear to have been accompanied by no greater clarity in our understanding of teaching, learning and development in the spiritual domain; indeed, most official and other literature on the spiritual aspects of schooling seems blissfully unaware of much need for rigorous analysis regarding a domain of usage which licenses different and not clearly…
Is Understanding the Professional Knowledge of Teachers a Theory-Practice Problem
The currently fashionable professional ideal of reflective practice has focused on how good teaching might be informed by theoretical (invariably social scientific) enquiry and has been commonly construed as a matter of the effective application of theory. This paper rejects technicist assumptions underpinning the idea of applied theory, tracing them to confusion between two different sorts of practical deliberation, phronesis and techne. Underst…
The Legislative‐administrative Structure in Canada
From the Cam to the Cays
The "Fifth Meditation" and Husserl's Cartesianism
Explorations in Phenomenology
Phenomenology and the Problem of History
Practical Pursuits and the Curriculum
The process of criticism in interpretive sociology and history
In search of pure experience
Does ‘education concerns the development of knowledge and understanding’ express a necessary truth
(1979). Does ‘education concerns the development of knowledge and understanding’ express a necessary truth? Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 35-50
Boroughs of Medieval Wales . R. A. Griffiths
On Mastering a Skill
Journal Article On Mastering a Skill Get access David Carr David Carr Correspondence: David Carr, Dunfermline College of Physical Education, Cramond, Edinburgh EH4 6JD, Scotland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 15, Issue 1, July 1981, Pages 87–96, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1981.tb00571.x Published: 30 May 2006
Education and the Promotion of Human Freedom
(1982). Education and the Promotion of Human Freedom. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 37-49
Three Approaches to Moral Education
Moral Philosophy and Psychology in Progressive and Traditional Educational Thought
Journal Article Moral Philosophy and Psychology in Progressive and Traditional Educational Thought Get access David Carr David Carr Correspondence: David Carr, Dunfermline College, Edinburgh, Scotland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 18, Issue 1, July 1984, Pages 41–53, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1984.tb00043.x Published: 30 May 2006
Knowledge, Mind and the Curriculum
(1984). Knowledge, Mind and the Curriculum. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 12-22
Temps et Recit. Tome I
The Free Child and the Spoiled Child
On Understanding Educational Theory
Education, Professionalism and Theories of Teaching
Journal Article Education, Professionalism and Theories of Teaching Get access David Carr David Carr Correspondence: David Carr, Dunfermline College of Physical Education, Cramond Road North, Edinburgh EH4 6JD, Scotland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 20, Issue 1, July 1986, Pages 113–121, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1986.tb00117.x Published: 30 May 2006
Narrative and the Real World
What is the relation between a narrative and the events it depicts? This is one of the questions that have been debated by many contributors to the lively interdisciplinary discussion of narrative in recent years. The debate concerns the truthfulness, in a very broad sense of that term, of narrative accounts. Traditional narrative histories claim to tell us what really happened. Fictional narratives portray events that of course by definition nev…
Time, Narrative, and History
Interpreting Husserl
Thought and Action in the Art of Dance
Journal Article THOUGHT AND ACTION IN THE ART OF DANCE Get access David Carr David Carr Dunfermline College of Physical EducationCramond Road North, Edinburgh, EH4 6JD, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 27, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1987, Pages 345–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/27.4.345 Published: 01 April 1987
La Philosophie de L'Histoire et la Pratiques Historienne D'Aujourd'hui (Philosophy of History and Contemporary Historiography)
Futures Past
Introduction, by Keith TribePart I: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History Chapter 1 Modernity and the Planes of HistoricityChapter 2 Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical ProcessChapter 3 Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of RevolutionChapter 4 Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein s Essay on the Prussian ConstitutionPart II Theory and Method of the Historic…
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