Paul Standish

Datos Biográficos

ID4376041
NOMBREPaul Standish
NOMBRESPaul
APELLIDOStandish
FIRMASTANDISH P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Dundee
ORCID0000-0003-0875-0191
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS55
TOTAL DE CITAS71
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1991
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H5

  • Who is my neighbour? Scepticism and the claims of alterity

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2025

    This article begins with the question put by the teacher of the law to Jesus about the limits of obligation to the stranger and, hence, the extent of neighbourhood. It relates this to the ways in which ideas of alterity are manifested in the language of multiculturalism, now a somewhat tarnished term, and cultural diversity, which has gained greater currency though far from universal respect. It considers the inflation of language that occurs whe…

  • Cavell and the thought of other cultures

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2025

    This introduction sets the scene for the articles and interviews that follow by providing an account of themes and approaches in the work of Stanley Cavell that relate especially to the idea of other cultures. The ‘thought of other cultures' is a richly ambiguous expression. It refers most obviously to the thinking and cultural products of different cultures. But, it also calls into question in what sense the words ‘other' and ‘culture' are to be…

  • Veena Das interviewed by Paul Standish

    Open AccessVeena Das, Paul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2025Referencias: 2

    Veena Das is Professor Emerita in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities and numerous other prestigious awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 2009. She taught at the Delhi School of Economics for more than thirty years and at the New School before she joined Johns Hopkins University in 2000. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Scie…

  • Coming into the World, Coming into Language, Reading the World

    Paul StandishARTICLEA contrario2024

  • The provenance of the forms of knowledge thesis

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2023Referencias: 3

    This paper sets out to consider what is probably the most widely known of the writings of Paul Hirst, ‘Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge’. It examines the central concept of the ‘forms’ and goes on to explore the provenance of the ideas he develops in this paper, exposing diversity and some tension between these. At the end it offers some brief suggestions regarding the prospects for the idea of a liberal education today in the light …

  • Inner and outer, psychology and Wittgenstein's painted curtain

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2022

    Much thinking in psychology and related forms of psychotherapy is in the grip of a conception of inner–outer relationships that distorts the reality of our lives and world. In his later work, and in the last years of his life especially, Wittgenstein battled against this. In the course of his criticism, he developed vivid images that challenge this picture, revealing its limitations and opening the way to better understanding. Although 70 years h…

  • Something sacred to our culture

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2021

    The present discussion is motivated by a broad sympathy for the educational commitments that run through René Arcilla's Wim Wenders’ Road Movie Philosophy (2020). His framing of these commitments is imaginative, as is the invitation to Wenders’ films that the book provides. It is, however, with attention to the figures of the frame and the line that I call into question some aspects of the account, especially regarding its conceptions of time and…

  • Exhausted

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2020Referencias: 3

    The climate crisis is of a severity that fills many with a sense of hopelessness. The modest steps that ordinary citizens can take to reduce energy consumption and waste seem futile in relation to the massive changes that are needed from governments and industry, and inertia often results. The responses of philosophy and education have been conscientious and constructive in many respects, but again these endeavours are overwhelmed by the intransi…

  • Curiosity and Acquaintance

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2020Referencias: 5

    Curiosity has rightly received much attention in epistemology and educational research. Although, through the centuries, it has been regarded with a degree of ambivalence, the trend now is towards its championing as an intellectual or epistemic virtue. The present discussion juxtaposes it against a contrasting way of knowing, which I refer to as knowledge by acquaintance. The notion of acquaintance pursued here parts company with Bertrand Russell…

  • Lines of Testimony

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    The topic of testimony has gained increased prominence in recent years in epistemology, where it is typically taken to refer to the possible acquisition of knowledge through the understanding and acceptance of someone else's judgement. There is no doubt that learning in this way is a prominent feature of education. This conception of testimony contrasts, however, with the more restricted way in which it is commonly understood: everyday usage situ…

  • Recollecting R.S. Peters

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2020Referencias: 1

    This short text provides an introduction to the five papers that follow, all of which reflect on R.S. Peters, his founding importance for contemporary philosophy of education, and his continuing relevance. It sets the scene by referring to Peters’ early and important encounter with Israel Scheffler before going on briefly to acknowledge other work published over the past decade that examines Peters’ achievement. In addition, it explains the backg…

  • On Not Sparing Others the Trouble of Thinking

    Open AccessAdrian Skilbeck, Paul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2019

  • Positing Alterity, Positing Metaphysics

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2019Citada por: 3Referencias: 4

    In ‘Levinas: Ethics or Mystification?’ (Miller, 2017), Alistair Miller presents a searing indictment of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and a dismissal of claims for its importance for education. He provides a summary account of Levinas's philosophy and, in relation to this, refers briefly to a number of authors who have related Levinas's work to education. This account is at fault, however, in fundamental ways, and this leads to errors in the…

  • Rigour and Recoil

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2018Referencias: 1

    Journal Article Rigour and Recoil: Claims of Reason, Failures of Expression Get access Paul Standish Paul Standish Correspondence: Paul Standish, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK. 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 609–626, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12325 Published: 2…

  • Language must be raked’

    Paul StandishARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    This article begins by clarifying the notion of what Stanley Cavell has called ‘Emersonian moral perfectionism.’ It goes on to explore this through close analysis of aspects of Emerson’s essay ‘Experience,’ in which ideas of trying or attempting or experimenting bring out the intimate relation between perfectionism and styles of writing. ‘Where do we find ourselves?’ Emerson asks, and the answer is to be found in part in what we write and what we…

  • The Disenchantment of Education and the Re-enchantment of the World

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2016Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    The Disenchantment of Education and the Re-enchantment of the World

  • Sound not Light

    Emma Williams, Paul StandishARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2016Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

    Can Levinas' thought of the other be extended beyond the relation to the other human being? This article seeks to demonstrate that Levinas' philosophy can indeed be read in such a sense and that this serves to open up a new way of understanding human thinking. Key to understanding such an extension of Levinas' philosophy will be his account of the face and, more particularly, his claim that the relation to the face is 'heard in language'. Through…

  • Race and repression in a dance routine

    Paul StandishARTICLEEthics and Education2015

    Stefan Ramaekers and Joris Vlieghe’s ‘Infants, childhood and language in Agamben and Cavell: education as transformation’ is an insightful discussion of an important facet of educational experience. In the article, they consider a Fred Astaire dance sequence from the 1953 Vincente Minnelli film, The Band Wagon, in combination with a remarkable article about this same sequence by Stanley Cavell. On the strength of this, they develop an interesting…

  • Impudent practices

    Paul StandishARTICLEEthics and Education2014

    This article explores aspects of eros in education in relation to ideas of indirectness associated with the French concept of pudeur, sometimes translated as ‘modesty’. It explores lines of thought extending through Emerson and Nietzsche but reaching back to Plato's Symposium. This is a means of exposing the ‘impudence’ of some aspects of contemporary education and of pointing towards a conception of eros that is otherwise obscured

  • Hilary Putnam interviewed by Naoko Saito and Paul Standish

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2014Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    The interview, which took place on the eve of the 2012 American presidential election, coincides with the publication of three major works by or about Hilary Putnam. It begins and ends with the topic of science, drawing attention to science's profound importance but also to its contemporary forms of distortion. It explores Putnam's current views on realism, with reference to conceptual relativity and ‘objectivity without objects’. The nature of p…

  • Registers of the religious

    Paul StandishARTICLEEthics and Education2012

    Alasdair MacIntyre's landmark book After Virtue, first published in 1981, begins with sobering words, the resonance of which has, in the three decades since then, been felt by many. We live in a wo

  • Improving the Student Experience

    Open AccessElizabeth Staddon, Paul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2012Citada por: 3Referencias: 3

    Shifts in funding and a worldwide trend towards marketising higher education have led to a new emphasis on the quality of the student experience. In the UK this trend finds its strongest expression in recent policy proposals to simultaneously increase student fees and student choice so that students themselves become the drivers of higher education. We trace the policy developments of this shift over recent years and rehearse some of the criticis…

  • Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish

    Open AccessStanley Cavell, Paul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2012Citada por: 5Referencias: 4

    Journal Article Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish Get access Stanley Cavell, Stanley Cavell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Standish Paul Standish Correspondence: Paul Standish, Centre for Philosophy, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H0AL, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…

  • This Is Produced by a Brain-Process!’ Wittgenstein, Transparency and Psychology Today

    Open AccessPaul StandishARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2011Citada por: 3Referencias: 3

    This paper examines sections of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations with a view to exposing trail-effects of psychology in educational and social practice today. These are seen in understandings of the relations between mind and body, and language and thought, and their influence is identified in such contemporary preoccupations as accounting transparency and the new science of happiness. A Wittgensteinian critique is offered, with attent…

  • Food for thought

    Paul StandishARTICLEEthics and Education2009

    J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello is an overtly philosophical novel, at the heart of which are questions concerning the relation of human beings to animals and the discussion of animal rights. The nature of its subject matter and the prominence it gives to dialogue, sometimes of an almost Platonic kind, make it a rich potential resource for moral education. This article begins by imagining a course based on extracts from the novel, intended for t…