ABSTRACT
Although “Two Dogmas of Curriculum” was written for the 1982 special issue of Synthese, “Questions in the Philosophy of Education,” edited by C.J.B. Macmillan, it draws upon research I did in the 1970s. In those days I tended to think of myself as working on the logic of curriculum development, but when I told a philosophical colleague that I was asking what things can be subjects and had introduced the concepts of subject-entities and subject versions, he told me that my project belonged to metaphysics. Whether it be logic or metaphysics, this essay’s analysis of The Dogma of God Given Subjects uses material from “The Anatomy of Subjects,” written in 1971, and from a working paper I presented in 1972 at a conference sponsored by the New England Program for Teacher Education entitled “The Teacher in 1984.” Its analysis of The Dogma of the Immutable Basics was, in turn, developed in the mid 1970s.
