ABSTRACT
This chapter explores in a direct manner some of the key philosophers from the era of modern philosophy. It examines how modern philosophy led to phenomenology and deconstructive, post-structural philosophy and how they bear upon higher education. In reviewing the significance of the development of modern philosophy, John Dewey discussed what he thought was the erroneous identification of the mind with the individual self and a private psychic consciousness. The chapter argues that philosophies offer a new possibility for unification of the students experience within higher education theory, however un-unified the human subject itself is. The era of modern philosophy began with the work of Rene Descartes. He was skeptical about what resources might be relied upon in ascertaining truth and pointed to the need to clear away all possible sources of information which prove to be unreliable, untrustworthy, and potentially false.
