ABSTRACT
Israel Scheffler is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1952, and retired from it in 1992. He received his BA and MA degrees from Brooklyn College, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of the eminent philosopher Nelson Goodman, with whom Scheffler became a life-long friend, collaborator and philosophical protagonist. Scheffler has been a key figure in philosophy of education in the United States, and indeed, along with R. S. Peters in Great Britain, is the preeminent philosopher of education in the English-speaking world in the second half of the twentieth century. A 'sense of community of investigation, unified by method rather than doctrine', and 'a common search for clarity on fundamental issues' characterize the analytic approach to philosophy, an approach which Scheffler argued should be central to philosophy of education.
