D Bakhurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 12611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Bakhurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakhurst |
| SIGNATURE | BAKHURST D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9652-2839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ilyenkov and Vygotsky on imagination
Gareth Matthews on development and deficit
This paper argues that Gareth Matthews’ writing on developmental psychology is both a central part of his philosophical legacy and a contribution of enduring interest. Although he engages with figures, such as Piaget and Kohlberg, who are no longer as influential as they once were, his critique of the ‘deficit conception of childhood’ retains its relevance today. While the deficit model holds that any capacity, aptitude, virtue, or skill that a c…
Introduction to the suite: Symposium on Philip Kitcher’s The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education
This paper introduces a suite of articles devoted to Philip Kitcher’s The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education (Oxford University Press, 2021). The suite opens with a paper by Kitcher, which presents the central themes of his important book. This is followed by an assessment of the work as whole by John White, and four commentaries discussing in detail various aspects of Kitcher’s position by Ben Kotzee (on science education), Alexi…
Education for metaphysical animals
This essay explores the legacy of the four philosophers now often referred to as ‘The Wartime Quartet’: G.E.M. Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley. The life and work of the four, who studied together in Oxford during the Second World War, is the subject of two recently published books, The Women Are Up to Something, by Benjamin Lipscomb, and Metaphysical Animals, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman. The two books show us …
Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of Covid
In my 2020 paper ‘Teaching, telling and technology’, I explored the essentially second-personal, I-thou, relation between teacher and student—a relation I take to be essential to teaching at its most effective and inspiring. I concluded that essay with a critique of web-based instruction in universities, arguing that there are features of online courses that undermine dimensions of the teacher–student relation that are profoundly valuable. ‘Teach…
Kant on education and improvement: Themes and problems
Whilst Kant is one of the most influential figures in the history of philosophy and was also, in his own time, an important theorist of education, he is sometimes regarded with suspicion by contemporary educational theorists. His philosophy, it is often maintained, is fraught with problematic dualisms and other familiar confusions of the Enlightenment that are obstacles to cogent educational theory and liberatory pedagogical practice. At the same…
Human nature, reason and morality
What role should moral philosophy give to considerations about human nature and the character of human life? And what part should such considerations play in moral education? This paper explores these questions by contrasting the ‘new intuitionist’ position I defend in ‘Practice, sensibility and moral education’ (Bakhurst, 2018) with Philippa Foot's neo-Aristotelian naturalism, which holds that natural-historic description of the human life-form …
Analysis and transcendence in The Sovereignty of Good
Teaching, Telling and Technology
This essay explores the nature of teaching, the relationship between teacher and student, and the scope and limits of new learning technologies. Teaching, whatever else it might be, involves the imparting of knowledge. To illuminate this, I turn to the epistemology of testimony and consider Anscombe's idea of trusting another for the truth, a notion that conveys something of the second-personal dimension of teaching and learning. But the teacher …
Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions—Introduction
Journal Article Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions—Introduction Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 255–2…
On Lenin’s Materialism and empiriocriticism
Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education
Journal Article Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, John Watson Hall, 49 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 52, Issue 4, November 2018, Pages 677–694, https://doi.…
Introduction: Exploring the Formation of Reason
As I say in the preface to The Formation of Reason, I did not set out to write a book in philosophy of education. My work developed in that direction largely under the influence of friends and colleagues at the Institute of Education, particularly two of the contributors to this symposium, Jan Derry and Paul Standish, and it was my good fortune that the book found a home in the JOPE series. Of course, how far the book is a contribution to philoso…
Response to Rödl, Standish and Derry: Concluding Response
Journal Article Response to Rödl, Standish and Derry Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 123–129, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-975…
Understanding Vygotsky
Ilyenkov's Passion
After Khrushchev succeeded Stalin in the mid-1950s, there began the period of liberalization and reform in the USSR known as the “thaw.” One of its effects was a renaissance in Soviet philosophical
Preface: Hegel in Russia
Il’enkov’s Hegel
Learning from Others: Learning from Others
Journal Article Learning from Others Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, The Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 47, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 187–203, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12020 Published…
Freedom and Second Nature in The Formation of Reason
This article elaborates and defends a thesis prominent in my recent book, The Formation of Reason; namely, that a human being gets to be free in the distinctive way that human beings are free through the acquisition of second nature. My treatment of this thesis in The Formation of Reason is much influenced by the philosophy of John McDowell. McDowell himself, however, is notoriously reluctant to offer a theory of second nature. In this article, I…
The Formation of Reason
"In The Formation of Reason, David Bakhurst expounds and defends a socio-historical account of the human mind. Inspired by the work of the influential philosopher John McDowell, Bakhurst maintains that the distinctive character of human psychological powers resides in our responsiveness to reasons, a capacity that develops in children as they are initiated into traditions of thinking and reasoning. In this process of formation (or Bildung), child…
The Riddle of the Self revisited
Reflections on activity theory
It is sometimes suggested that activity theory represents the most important legacy of Soviet philosophy and psychology. But what exactly is activity theory? The canonical account in the West is given by Engeström, who identifies three stages in the theory's development: from Vygotsky's insights, through Leontiev's articulation of the fundamental structure of activity, to a still-emerging third generation incorporating difference, discourse and d…
Minds, Brains and Education
Journal Article Minds, Brains and Education Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 42, Issue 3-4, August …
Representaciones del pasado, cultura personal e identidad nacional
Memoria, Historia, Individuo, Nacion,Identidad, - asi, escritos con mayusculas - sonpalabras que se hacen presentes en el discur-so publico de cada dia. Se trata de conceptosque, en ocasiones, se convierten en armasarrojadizas en los conflictos sociales, y se agitancomo conceptos explicativos en los discursospublicos que dan cuenta de la violencia simbo-lica, y a veces de la fisica, que sufren losciudadanos de a pie; quienes, ademas de serpeones …
Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy: From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov
This 1991 book is a critical study of the philosophical culture of the USSR, and the first substantial treatment of a Soviet philosopher's work by a Western author. The book identifies a tradition within Soviet Marxism that has produced significant theories of the nature of the self and human activity, of the origins of value and meaning, and of the relation of thought and language. The tradition is presented through the work of Evald Ilyenkov (1…
Reflections on activity theory
It is sometimes suggested that activity theory represents the most important legacy of Soviet philosophy and psychology. But what exactly is activity theory? The canonical account in the West is given by Engeström, who identifies three stages in the theory's development: from Vygotsky's insights, through Leontiev's articulation of the fundamental structure of activity, to a still-emerging third generation incorporating difference, discourse and d…
Learning from Others: Learning from Others
Journal Article Learning from Others Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, The Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 47, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 187–203, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12020 Published…
Teaching, Telling and Technology
This essay explores the nature of teaching, the relationship between teacher and student, and the scope and limits of new learning technologies. Teaching, whatever else it might be, involves the imparting of knowledge. To illuminate this, I turn to the epistemology of testimony and consider Anscombe's idea of trusting another for the truth, a notion that conveys something of the second-personal dimension of teaching and learning. But the teacher …
Minds, Brains and Education
Journal Article Minds, Brains and Education Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 42, Issue 3-4, August …
Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions—Introduction
Journal Article Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions—Introduction Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 255–2…
Response to Rödl, Standish and Derry: Concluding Response
Journal Article Response to Rödl, Standish and Derry Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 123–129, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-975…
Meaning, normativity and the life of the mind
Thought, speech and the genesis of meaning: On the 50th anniversary of Vygotsky's My?lenie i re
Kant on education and improvement: Themes and problems
Whilst Kant is one of the most influential figures in the history of philosophy and was also, in his own time, an important theorist of education, he is sometimes regarded with suspicion by contemporary educational theorists. His philosophy, it is often maintained, is fraught with problematic dualisms and other familiar confusions of the Enlightenment that are obstacles to cogent educational theory and liberatory pedagogical practice. At the same…
Introduction: Exploring the Formation of Reason
As I say in the preface to The Formation of Reason, I did not set out to write a book in philosophy of education. My work developed in that direction largely under the influence of friends and colleagues at the Institute of Education, particularly two of the contributors to this symposium, Jan Derry and Paul Standish, and it was my good fortune that the book found a home in the JOPE series. Of course, how far the book is a contribution to philoso…
Representaciones del pasado, cultura personal e identidad nacional
Memoria, Historia, Individuo, Nacion,Identidad, - asi, escritos con mayusculas - sonpalabras que se hacen presentes en el discur-so publico de cada dia. Se trata de conceptosque, en ocasiones, se convierten en armasarrojadizas en los conflictos sociales, y se agitancomo conceptos explicativos en los discursospublicos que dan cuenta de la violencia simbo-lica, y a veces de la fisica, que sufren losciudadanos de a pie; quienes, ademas de serpeones …
Social being and the human essence: An unresolved issue in Soviet philosophy
Human nature, reason and morality
What role should moral philosophy give to considerations about human nature and the character of human life? And what part should such considerations play in moral education? This paper explores these questions by contrasting the ‘new intuitionist’ position I defend in ‘Practice, sensibility and moral education’ (Bakhurst, 2018) with Philippa Foot's neo-Aristotelian naturalism, which holds that natural-historic description of the human life-form …
On Lenin’s Materialism and empiriocriticism
Il’enkov on Education
Education for metaphysical animals
This essay explores the legacy of the four philosophers now often referred to as ‘The Wartime Quartet’: G.E.M. Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley. The life and work of the four, who studied together in Oxford during the Second World War, is the subject of two recently published books, The Women Are Up to Something, by Benjamin Lipscomb, and Metaphysical Animals, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman. The two books show us …
Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education
Journal Article Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, John Watson Hall, 49 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 52, Issue 4, November 2018, Pages 677–694, https://doi.…
Soviet Marxism and Analytical Philosophies of History
Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of Covid
In my 2020 paper ‘Teaching, telling and technology’, I explored the essentially second-personal, I-thou, relation between teacher and student—a relation I take to be essential to teaching at its most effective and inspiring. I concluded that essay with a critique of web-based instruction in universities, arguing that there are features of online courses that undermine dimensions of the teacher–student relation that are profoundly valuable. ‘Teach…
Il’enkov’s Hegel
The Riddle of the Self revisited
Thought, speech and the genesis of meaning: On the 50th anniversary of Vygotsky's My?lenie i re
Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy: From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov
This 1991 book is a critical study of the philosophical culture of the USSR, and the first substantial treatment of a Soviet philosopher's work by a Western author. The book identifies a tradition within Soviet Marxism that has produced significant theories of the nature of the self and human activity, of the origins of value and meaning, and of the relation of thought and language. The tradition is presented through the work of Evald Ilyenkov (1…
Soviet Marxism and Analytical Philosophies of History
On the social constitution of mind: Bruner, Ilyenkov, and the defence of cultural psychology
The focus of this paper is “strong culturalist theories of mind”, i.e., those that argue that culture is constitutive of mind and thus that the nature and content of an individual's mental life cannot be understood independently of the culture of which that individual is a part. While such theories can be advanced on empirical grounds, it is tempting for the culturalist to seek some broad philosophical arguments that will show that the opposing p…
Social being and the human essence: An unresolved issue in Soviet philosophy
Truth, Philosophy, and Legal Discourse
Meaning, normativity and the life of the mind
Evert van der Zweerde, Soviet Historiography of Philosophy. Istoriko-filosofskaja nauka
Ilyenkov on Aesthetics: Realism, Imagination, and the End of Art
It is sometimes claimed that Evald Ilyenkov's writings, particularly those on the problem of the ideal, best express the philosophical framework of Russian cultural-historical psychology and activity theory. In this article I consider a neglected part of Ilyenkov's legacy: his work on aesthetics. Ilyenkov's writings on art cast significant light on his views of culture and mind and on the humanistic vision at the center of his philosophy. In 1964…
Il’enkov on Education
Wiggins on Persons and Human Nature
Minds, Brains and Education
Journal Article Minds, Brains and Education Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 42, Issue 3-4, August …
Representaciones del pasado, cultura personal e identidad nacional
Memoria, Historia, Individuo, Nacion,Identidad, - asi, escritos con mayusculas - sonpalabras que se hacen presentes en el discur-so publico de cada dia. Se trata de conceptosque, en ocasiones, se convierten en armasarrojadizas en los conflictos sociales, y se agitancomo conceptos explicativos en los discursospublicos que dan cuenta de la violencia simbo-lica, y a veces de la fisica, que sufren losciudadanos de a pie; quienes, ademas de serpeones …
Reflections on activity theory
It is sometimes suggested that activity theory represents the most important legacy of Soviet philosophy and psychology. But what exactly is activity theory? The canonical account in the West is given by Engeström, who identifies three stages in the theory's development: from Vygotsky's insights, through Leontiev's articulation of the fundamental structure of activity, to a still-emerging third generation incorporating difference, discourse and d…
The Riddle of the Self revisited
The Formation of Reason
"In The Formation of Reason, David Bakhurst expounds and defends a socio-historical account of the human mind. Inspired by the work of the influential philosopher John McDowell, Bakhurst maintains that the distinctive character of human psychological powers resides in our responsiveness to reasons, a capacity that develops in children as they are initiated into traditions of thinking and reasoning. In this process of formation (or Bildung), child…
Freedom and Second Nature in The Formation of Reason
This article elaborates and defends a thesis prominent in my recent book, The Formation of Reason; namely, that a human being gets to be free in the distinctive way that human beings are free through the acquisition of second nature. My treatment of this thesis in The Formation of Reason is much influenced by the philosophy of John McDowell. McDowell himself, however, is notoriously reluctant to offer a theory of second nature. In this article, I…
Preface: Hegel in Russia
Il’enkov’s Hegel
Learning from Others: Learning from Others
Journal Article Learning from Others Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, The Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 47, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 187–203, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12020 Published…
Understanding Vygotsky
Ilyenkov's Passion
After Khrushchev succeeded Stalin in the mid-1950s, there began the period of liberalization and reform in the USSR known as the “thaw.” One of its effects was a renaissance in Soviet philosophical
Introduction: Exploring the Formation of Reason
As I say in the preface to The Formation of Reason, I did not set out to write a book in philosophy of education. My work developed in that direction largely under the influence of friends and colleagues at the Institute of Education, particularly two of the contributors to this symposium, Jan Derry and Paul Standish, and it was my good fortune that the book found a home in the JOPE series. Of course, how far the book is a contribution to philoso…
Response to Rödl, Standish and Derry: Concluding Response
Journal Article Response to Rödl, Standish and Derry Get access David Bakhurst David Bakhurst Correspondence: David Bakhurst, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 123–129, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-975…
On Lenin’s Materialism and empiriocriticism
Epistemology (30 works) · Philosophy (26 works) · Philosophy (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (7 works)