Patrick Frierson
Biographic Data
| ID | 968555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Frierson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Frierson |
| SIGNATURE | FRIERSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8427-2000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conclusion
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
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
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
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…
The Moral Philosophy of Maria Montessori
This paper lays out the moral theory of philosopher and educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952). Based on a moral epistemology wherein moral concepts are grounded in a well-cultivated moral sense, Montessori develops a threefold account of moral life. She starts with an account of character as an ideal of individual self-perfection through concentrated attention on effortful work. She shows how respect for others grows from and supplements individu…
Discipline and the cultivation of autonomy in Immanuel Kant and Maria Montessori
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 …
Situationism and intellectual virtue: A Montessori perspective
Maria Montessori
K ant, I mmanuel (1724–1804): Influence on the Origins and Development of Anthropology
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
Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing
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
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Kant's Anatomy of Evil
Introduction 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik 7. Kant and the intelligibility…
Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings
Selected notes and fragments from the 1760s
618 . 1769? (1764–68?) The strikingly natural or naïve ( later addition : in the use of the understanding, if nature appears as art, is called naïvety), the unexpectedly natural. Poetic art is an artificial play of thoughts. We play with thoughts if we do not labor with them, that is, are [not] necessitated by an end. One merely seeks to entertain oneself with thoughts. For this it is necessary that all the powers of mind are set into an harmonio…
Immanuel Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings
This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes li…
Kant on mental disorder. Part 2: Philosophical implications of Kant’s account
This paper considers various philosophical problems arising from Kant’s account of mental disorder. Starting with the reasons why Kant considered his theory of mental disorder important, I then turn to the implications of this theory of Kant’s metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Given Kant’s account of insanity as ‘a totally different standpoint ... from which one sees all objects differently’ (7: 216), the Critique of Pure Reason should be rea…
Kant on mental disorder. Part 1: An overview
This paper sets out Kant’s anthropological account of mental disorder. I begin with a discussion of the nature of Kant’s ‘pragmatic anthropology’ and the implications of the fact that his discussion of mental disorder takes place in that context. I then set out Kant’s taxonomy of the mind and discuss the various disorders affecting the cognitive faculty and the faculties of feeling and desire. I end with a brief discussion of Kant’s views on the …
Empirical psychology, common sense, and Kant’s empirical markers for moral responsibility
Corruption, Non‐ideal Theory, and Grace: A Response to Kant and the Ethics of Humility
Metastandards in the Ethics of Adam Smith and Aldo Leopold
Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology
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, …
The Moral Importance of Politeness in Kant's Anthropology
In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1784), Kant explains that ethics, like physics, ‘will have its empirical part, but it will also have a rational part, ... though here [in ethics] the empirical part might be given the special name practical anthropology ’ (4: 388). In the Groundwork , Kant suggests that anthropology, or the ‘power of judgment sharpened by experience’, has two roles, ‘to distinguish in what cases [moral laws] are app…
Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology
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, …
Kant's Anatomy of Evil
Introduction 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik 7. Kant and the intelligibility…
Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing
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…
The Moral Philosophy of Maria Montessori: Agency and Ethical Life
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…
The Moral Importance of Politeness in Kant's Anthropology
In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1784), Kant explains that ethics, like physics, ‘will have its empirical part, but it will also have a rational part, ... though here [in ethics] the empirical part might be given the special name practical anthropology ’ (4: 388). In the Groundwork , Kant suggests that anthropology, or the ‘power of judgment sharpened by experience’, has two roles, ‘to distinguish in what cases [moral laws] are app…
Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology
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, …
Corruption, Non‐ideal Theory, and Grace: A Response to Kant and the Ethics of Humility
Metastandards in the Ethics of Adam Smith and Aldo Leopold
Empirical psychology, common sense, and Kant’s empirical markers for moral responsibility
Kant on mental disorder. Part 2: Philosophical implications of Kant’s account
This paper considers various philosophical problems arising from Kant’s account of mental disorder. Starting with the reasons why Kant considered his theory of mental disorder important, I then turn to the implications of this theory of Kant’s metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Given Kant’s account of insanity as ‘a totally different standpoint ... from which one sees all objects differently’ (7: 216), the Critique of Pure Reason should be rea…
Kant on mental disorder. Part 1: An overview
This paper sets out Kant’s anthropological account of mental disorder. I begin with a discussion of the nature of Kant’s ‘pragmatic anthropology’ and the implications of the fact that his discussion of mental disorder takes place in that context. I then set out Kant’s taxonomy of the mind and discuss the various disorders affecting the cognitive faculty and the faculties of feeling and desire. I end with a brief discussion of Kant’s views on the …
Immanuel Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings
This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes li…
Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings
Selected notes and fragments from the 1760s
618 . 1769? (1764–68?) The strikingly natural or naïve ( later addition : in the use of the understanding, if nature appears as art, is called naïvety), the unexpectedly natural. Poetic art is an artificial play of thoughts. We play with thoughts if we do not labor with them, that is, are [not] necessitated by an end. One merely seeks to entertain oneself with thoughts. For this it is necessary that all the powers of mind are set into an harmonio…
Herder: Religion and moral motivation
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Kant's Anatomy of Evil
Introduction 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik 7. Kant and the intelligibility…
Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing
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…
Maria Montessori
K ant, I mmanuel (1724–1804): Influence on the Origins and Development of Anthropology
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
The Moral Philosophy of Maria Montessori
This paper lays out the moral theory of philosopher and educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952). Based on a moral epistemology wherein moral concepts are grounded in a well-cultivated moral sense, Montessori develops a threefold account of moral life. She starts with an account of character as an ideal of individual self-perfection through concentrated attention on effortful work. She shows how respect for others grows from and supplements individu…
Discipline and the cultivation of autonomy in Immanuel Kant and Maria Montessori
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 …
Situationism and intellectual virtue: A Montessori perspective
What is the Idea of the Soul? Comments on Katharina Kraus, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self - Formation
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
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…
Conclusion
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
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…
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