Patrick R Frierson

Biographic Data

ID461685
NAMEPatrick R Frierson
GIVEN NAMESPatrick R
FAMILY NAMEFrierson
SIGNATUREFRIERSON P R
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Philosophy Whitman College, Walla Walla Washington USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Maria Montessori's Philosophy: Following the Child

    Patrick R FriersonBOOKMaria Montessori's Philosophy2025

    This book is the first exposition of Maria Montessori’s philosophy as a whole. Patrick Frierson shows how Montessori’s commitment to “follow the child” can be understood as a philosophical method for answering all of the great philosophical questions that confront human beings. The book discusses historical influences on Montessori’s philosophy, but it focuses on showing how her commitment to children led her to profound insights about a wide ran…

  • Conclusion

    Patrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonCHAPTERMaria Montessori's Philosophy2025

    This brief conclusion wraps up the themes of the book with a short reflection on the epitaph on Montessori’s final place of rest

  • Montessori, math, and materials: A case of extended cognition

    Open AccessPatrick R Frierson, Patrick Frierson et al.ARTICLESynthese2025References: 37

    In this article, we bring Maria Montessori’s pedagogy into conversation with contemporary developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. In particular, we seek to show that Montessori’s “prepared environment” provides a context within which cognitive tasks are performed in the interfaces and interactions among brains, bodies, and concrete mathematical materials. For ease of illustration, we will focus on one particular Montessori m…

  • What is the Idea of the Soul? Comments on Katharina Kraus, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self - Formation

    Open AccessPatrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonARTICLEKantian Review2022

    These remarks focus on Kraus’s claim that for Kant the category of substance cannot apply to the soul but that instead we can and should apply a merely regulative idea of the soul. While granting Kraus’s contention that we require an idea of the soul in order to investigate inner experience, I argue that the category of substance nonetheless applies to the soul, but that the notion of the soul as entirely non-corporeal is a regulative idea. To ex…

  • The Moral Philosophy of Maria Montessori: Agency and Ethical Life

    Patrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonBOOKMoral Philosophy of Maria…2022Cited by: 1

    In the first scholarly exposition of Maria Montessori's moral philosophy, Patrick R. Frierson presents an empirically-grounded ethics that takes its start from our tendency to strive for excellence and emphasizes mutual respect, social solidarity, and love. Laying out a compelling, Montessorian approach to ethical life, Frierson constructs an account of human agency based on children, who when attentively at work on self-chosen tasks, have agency…

  • Discipline and the cultivation of autonomy in Immanuel Kant and Maria Montessori

    Open AccessPatrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2021References: 8

    After showing discipline's centrality in Kant's pedagogy, I briefly highlight Montessori's alternative and then turn to three fundamental differences between Kant and Montessori that partly explain their divergent accounts. My goal is not to assess whether Kant or Montessori gets the role of discipline ‘right’, but to highlight broader stakes of their disagreement and ways deeper features of Kant's psychology and moral theory ground his emphasis …

  • K ant, I mmanuel (1724–1804): Influence on the Origins and Development of Anthropology

    Open AccessPatrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    This entry lays out Kant's contributions to the development of anthropology, focusing on four key areas: his concept of “pragmatic anthropology,” his race theory, his moral philosophy (with particular emphasis on his notion of a “universal” ethics), and his claim that the world one inhabits is partly constituted by the cognitive structures through which one situates oneself within that world

  • Towards a research program in Kantian positive psychology

    Open AccessPatrick R FriersonARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2018References: 16

  • Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing

    Open AccessPatrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2015Cited by: 2References: 3

    Journal Article Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing Get access Patrick R Frierson Patrick R Frierson Correspondence: Patrick R. Frierson, Philosophy Department, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education…

  • Herder: Religion and moral motivation

    Open AccessPatrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonCHAPTERKant's Lectures on Ethics2014

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  • Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology

    Patrick R Frierson, Patrick FriersonARTICLEJournal of the history of…2006Cited by: 7References: 6

    Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology Patrick Frierson In the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant explains that moral anthropology studies the "subjective conditions in human nature that help or hinder [people] in fulfilling the laws of a metaphysics of morals" and insists that such anthropology "cannot be dispensed with" (6:217).1 But it is often difficult to find clear evidence of this sort of anthropology in Kant's own works. In this paper, …