Phronesis by Kristjn Kristjnsson, Blaine Fowers - 9780192871473

PhronesisRetrieving Practical Wisdom in Psychology, Philosophy, and Education\nAuthor(s): Kristjn Kristjnsson, Blaine Fowers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192871473, 978-0192871473\nSynopsis\nPhronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers (and more recently psychologists) for millennia. In the last decade or so, a bandwagon of diverse academics has been working with and celebrating the notion of phronesis as a metacognitive capacity, guiding morally aspirational cognition and action.\n\nIn Phronesis: Retrieving Practical Wisdom in Psychology, Philosophy, and Education, Kristjn Kristjnsson and Blaine J. Fowers work through some of the relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse, filling gaps in the current literatures, and pushing the research agenda in new directions. The book does so in a way that is radically interdisciplinary and draws in equal measure on insights fr.