How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World - The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution

In this lucid and provocative book, Nicholas Maxwell argues convincingly that we need urgently to bring about a revolution in universities round the world so that their basic aim becomes wisdom, and not just knowledge.

About the author

Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science at University College London. Previously, he taught philosophy of science in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at UCL for nearly thirty years. Much of his teaching and research has been devoted to arguing that we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire knowledge. He has published six books on this theme.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Maxwell
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781845405731
• ISBN: 978-1-84540-573-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: Societas: Essays in Political; Societas; Societas: Essays in Political
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system