Larry A Hickman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1469832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry A Hickman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hickman |
| SIGNATURE | HICKMAN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Section 2. Boundary Disagreements
Educational Occupations and Classroom Technology: Lessons from Democracy and Education
Despite the fact that John Dewey had a great deal to say about education and technology, many of his insights have yet to be understood or appropriated. A close reading of Democracy and Education offers support for the view that Dewey was prescient in proposing a pedagogy that was friendly to current initiatives in innovative classroom technology including inverted or “flipped” classroom projects in the United States and elsewhere and the Future …
Interview with Larry A. Hickman
Michela Bella & Matteo Santarelli – What was the state of Pragmatism studies when you first encountered pragmatism? Larry A. Hickman – After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology I decided that I wanted to study philosophy. In order to prepare for graduate school, I spent a year taking philosophy courses at the University of Texas in Austin. The faculty included Charles Hartshorne, who was co-editor of the Peirce Collected Papers. Ther…
John Dewey’s Critique of Our “Unmodern” Philosophy
Phillip Deen for his efforts to bring this volume to fruition. His careful research among the Dewey Papers in Special Collections of Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale led him to see what others had overlooked. He discovered more than a dozen chapters of an incomplete manuscript whose date, the late 1930's and early '40s coincides with the period during which Dewey famously lost a manuscript while returning from Hubbards, N…
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism
Book Symposium on Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science
Educating for profit, educating global citizenship
After reviewing current proposals for standardized testing in K-12 education (United States) and for imposition of free-market economic and business models on higher education (Texas, Florida, and the United Kingdom), I argue that both types of proposals rest on flawed pedagogical assumptions and tend to undermine educational practices that promote the development of global citizens. I suggest that John Dewey was aware of the type of challenges n…
Why American Philosophy? Why Now
This title presents not two, but three questions. The third question, the one that lies behind and is obscured by the two more obvious ones, concerns the nature of American philosophy. What qualifies as “American” philosophy? Is it, as some have suggested, philosophy as it is practiced in any of the Americas – North, Central, or South? Or is it perhaps philosophy as it is pursued by practitioners living in North America, or even in a more restric…
Pragmatic Paths to Environmental Sustainability
On Hugh T. Miller on “Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade”
Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform of Technology
This chapter addresses two related questions: How can we evaluate appropriate and inappropriate technology? And how can we evaluate focal things and practices, for surely many of them are troubling? The chapter, inspired by John Dewey's work, has developed a pragmatic philosophy of technology—pragmatechnics. The chapter contrasts pragmatechnics with focaltechnics, a characterization of Borgmann's vision of appropriate technology. Borgmann present…
Making the Family Functional: The Case for Legalized Same-Sex Domestic Partnerships
This essay argues that “the family” should be understood in functional terms: whatever functions as a family should have the legal status of a family. The author’s argument thus avoids two extreme positions. The first is the position of the hard-line “platonic” essentialists who, on grounds of nature, supernature, or cultural history, argue that a family unit must comprise heterosexual partners. The second is the position of the radical relativis…
The Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leont'ev, and Dewey and Its Implications for Education
Heidegger, Leont'ev, and Dewey held surprisingly similar views on the role of breakdown or failure as a means of revealing the nature of the world around us. For Heidegger, the resources by which we conduct our day-to-day activities do not usually require our conscious awareness. If our ongoing activity is blocked, however, this "transparency of equipment" is dispelled, forcing a more deliberate mode of action. Leont'ev's development of breakdown…
Technology's School: The Challenge to Philosophy . Leonard J. Waks
Science education for a life curriculum
Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth
Experiencing Photographs: Sontag, Barthes and Beyond
The Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leont'ev, and Dewey and Its Implications for Education
Heidegger, Leont'ev, and Dewey held surprisingly similar views on the role of breakdown or failure as a means of revealing the nature of the world around us. For Heidegger, the resources by which we conduct our day-to-day activities do not usually require our conscious awareness. If our ongoing activity is blocked, however, this "transparency of equipment" is dispelled, forcing a more deliberate mode of action. Leont'ev's development of breakdown…
On Hugh T. Miller on “Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade”
Making the Family Functional: The Case for Legalized Same-Sex Domestic Partnerships
This essay argues that “the family” should be understood in functional terms: whatever functions as a family should have the legal status of a family. The author’s argument thus avoids two extreme positions. The first is the position of the hard-line “platonic” essentialists who, on grounds of nature, supernature, or cultural history, argue that a family unit must comprise heterosexual partners. The second is the position of the radical relativis…
Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth
Interview with Larry A. Hickman
Michela Bella & Matteo Santarelli – What was the state of Pragmatism studies when you first encountered pragmatism? Larry A. Hickman – After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology I decided that I wanted to study philosophy. In order to prepare for graduate school, I spent a year taking philosophy courses at the University of Texas in Austin. The faculty included Charles Hartshorne, who was co-editor of the Peirce Collected Papers. Ther…
Experiencing Photographs: Sontag, Barthes and Beyond
Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth
Science education for a life curriculum
Technology's School: The Challenge to Philosophy . Leonard J. Waks
The Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leont'ev, and Dewey and Its Implications for Education
Heidegger, Leont'ev, and Dewey held surprisingly similar views on the role of breakdown or failure as a means of revealing the nature of the world around us. For Heidegger, the resources by which we conduct our day-to-day activities do not usually require our conscious awareness. If our ongoing activity is blocked, however, this "transparency of equipment" is dispelled, forcing a more deliberate mode of action. Leont'ev's development of breakdown…
Making the Family Functional: The Case for Legalized Same-Sex Domestic Partnerships
This essay argues that “the family” should be understood in functional terms: whatever functions as a family should have the legal status of a family. The author’s argument thus avoids two extreme positions. The first is the position of the hard-line “platonic” essentialists who, on grounds of nature, supernature, or cultural history, argue that a family unit must comprise heterosexual partners. The second is the position of the radical relativis…
Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform of Technology
This chapter addresses two related questions: How can we evaluate appropriate and inappropriate technology? And how can we evaluate focal things and practices, for surely many of them are troubling? The chapter, inspired by John Dewey's work, has developed a pragmatic philosophy of technology—pragmatechnics. The chapter contrasts pragmatechnics with focaltechnics, a characterization of Borgmann's vision of appropriate technology. Borgmann present…
On Hugh T. Miller on “Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade”
Pragmatic Paths to Environmental Sustainability
Why American Philosophy? Why Now
This title presents not two, but three questions. The third question, the one that lies behind and is obscured by the two more obvious ones, concerns the nature of American philosophy. What qualifies as “American” philosophy? Is it, as some have suggested, philosophy as it is practiced in any of the Americas – North, Central, or South? Or is it perhaps philosophy as it is pursued by practitioners living in North America, or even in a more restric…
Book Symposium on Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science
Educating for profit, educating global citizenship
After reviewing current proposals for standardized testing in K-12 education (United States) and for imposition of free-market economic and business models on higher education (Texas, Florida, and the United Kingdom), I argue that both types of proposals rest on flawed pedagogical assumptions and tend to undermine educational practices that promote the development of global citizens. I suggest that John Dewey was aware of the type of challenges n…
John Dewey’s Critique of Our “Unmodern” Philosophy
Phillip Deen for his efforts to bring this volume to fruition. His careful research among the Dewey Papers in Special Collections of Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale led him to see what others had overlooked. He discovered more than a dozen chapters of an incomplete manuscript whose date, the late 1930's and early '40s coincides with the period during which Dewey famously lost a manuscript while returning from Hubbards, N…
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism
Interview with Larry A. Hickman
Michela Bella & Matteo Santarelli – What was the state of Pragmatism studies when you first encountered pragmatism? Larry A. Hickman – After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology I decided that I wanted to study philosophy. In order to prepare for graduate school, I spent a year taking philosophy courses at the University of Texas in Austin. The faculty included Charles Hartshorne, who was co-editor of the Peirce Collected Papers. Ther…
Educational Occupations and Classroom Technology: Lessons from Democracy and Education
Despite the fact that John Dewey had a great deal to say about education and technology, many of his insights have yet to be understood or appropriated. A close reading of Democracy and Education offers support for the view that Dewey was prescient in proposing a pedagogy that was friendly to current initiatives in innovative classroom technology including inverted or “flipped” classroom projects in the United States and elsewhere and the Future …
Section 2. Boundary Disagreements
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