A Metaphysics for the Liberal Arts

This book explores the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts. A timely and unique exploration of the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts, it will appeal to scholars, researchers, and faculty with interests in several branches of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of education, and aesthetics.

Bethany Henning is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the College of St. Scholastica, USA. Seth Vannatta is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University, USA.

Preface A Preface B Part I: The Role of Quality in Static and Process Metaphysics Chapter 1 Dualistic Metaphysics Chapter 2 Process Metaphysics Part II: Conserving the Liberal Arts amid the Crisis of Narrow Instrumentalism Chapter 3 Reactionary Models of Liberal Arts Education Chapter 4 Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism in Liberal Arts Education Chapter 5 Pragmatism in Liberal Arts Education Chapter 6 Radical Philosophies of Liberal Arts Education Part III: The Work of Art and Qualitative Experience Chapter 7 Conservative Approaches to Art Chapter 8 Radical Philosophies of Art Chapter 9 Pragmatism and Art as Experience Conclusion: Quality and Continuity in Metaphysics and the Liberal Arts