Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from Brooklyn College, an M.H.L. and a D.H.L.(hon.) from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Nelson Goodman. Appointed to the Faculty of Education at Harvard in 1952, he was named Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy in 1964.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, in London, Jerusalem, Hamburg, Tokyo, Geneva, Padua, Paris, Albi, and Oslo.
His main interests lie in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education. Among his books on these topics are The Anatomy of Inquiry, Conditions of Knowledge, Science and Subjectivity, Four Pragmatists, Reason and Teaching, Beyond the Letter, Inquiries, Of Human Potential, In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions, and, most recently, Symbolic Worlds. A Festschrift on his work, Reason and Education, edited by Harvey Siegel, appeared in 1997. |
