Professor D C Phillips

D. C. Phillips (PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia) is Professor Emeritus of Education, andby courtesy of Philosophy, at Stanford University, where he has also served as Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs and Interim Dean of the Schoolof Education. He was a member of the StanfordEvaluation Consortium (directed by Lee J.Cronbach), and for several years he led its trainingprogram in evaluation of educational and socialprograms.A philosopher of education and philosopherof social science...See more

D. C. Phillips (PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia) is Professor Emeritus of Education, andby courtesy of Philosophy, at Stanford University, where he has also served as Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs and Interim Dean of the Schoolof Education. He was a member of the StanfordEvaluation Consortium (directed by Lee J.Cronbach), and for several years he led its trainingprogram in evaluation of educational and socialprograms.A philosopher of education and philosopherof social science educated in Australia, he is theauthor, coauthor, or editor of 13 books, whichbetween them have been translated into sixlanguages titles include Holistic Thought inSocial Science; Visions of Childhood: InfluentialModels From Locke to Spock (with John Cleverley);Perspectives on Learning (five editions, with JonasSoltis); Philosophy, Science and Social Inquiry: Contemporary Methodological Controversiesin Social Science and Related Applied Fields ofResearch; Toward Reform of Program Evaluation(with Lee J. Cronbach et al.); Postpositivism andEducational Research (with Nicholas Burbules);The Expanded Social Scientist s Bestiary; andEducation, Culture, and Epistemological Diversity(with Claudia Ruitenberg). He was a member of thegroup that authored the National Research Councilreport in the United States: Scientific Research inEducation.In addition, he is the author of more than 120essays in books and refereed journals, includingEducational Researcher, Harvard EducationalReview, Educational Psychologist, PsychologicalReview, Educational Theory, Journal of Philosophyof Education, The Monist, and Journal of theHistory of Ideas. His most heavily cited article, first published in Educational Researcher, is TheGood, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Many Faces ofConstructivism. He is a member (emeritus) of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Education and a fellow of theInternational Academy of Education and of theAmerican Educational Research Association; he alsohas been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studyin the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Christensen Fellow at St. Catherine s College, Oxford; and he has been an academic visitor orguest lecturer at numerous universities aroundthe world. He was president of the Philosophy ofEducation Society during its 50th anniversary yearof 1990 1991. See less