1. How Many Experts Does It Take to Raise a Child?
- Sheila Lintott Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324525.ch1
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone
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How to Cite
Henry, S. E. (2010) How Many Experts Does It Take to Raise a Child?, in Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone (ed S. Lintott), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444324525.ch1
Editor Information
Bucknell University, USA
Publication History
- Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
- Published Print: 24 SEP 2010
Book Series:
Book Series Editors:
- Fritz Allhoff
Series Editor Information
Western Michigan University, USA
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444330281
Online ISBN: 9781444324525
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- mommy brain - truth, knowledge and belief in mothering;
- how experts raise children - mothering and the quest for certainty;
- “quest for certainty” in motherhood and mothering;
- Dewey's, seeing knowledge and belief as forms of partial truths - informing knowledge in action;
- philosophical and sociological pragmatism à la John Dewey;
- uncertainty of new mothering, mothers turning to “expert” texts - for guidance, in American culture;
- finding answers to mothering questions;
- good reasons for science - valid claims about relationships between variables;
- Democracy and Education, Dewey writes of how a child - who is learning to fly a kite, of how experience is a form of knowledge;
- toward a pragmatic approach to mothering
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Mothering and the Quest for Certainty
Finding Answers to Mothering Questions
Both/And Not Either/Or
Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Mothering
Notes