Rene Arcilla
Rene V. Arcilla is an Associate Professor of Educational Philosophy in the Steinhardt School of Education. His primary areas of interest are philosophy of education, liberal learning, existentialism, and modernism.
Publications
- Selected Works: "Why Aren't Philosophers and Educators Speaking to Each Other?" Educational Theory, 2002; For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education, New York: Routledge, 1995; "For the Stranger in My Home: Self-Knowledge, Cultural Re
Research Interests
Current Research: I have been working on a philosophical theory of liberal learning, one that distinguishes this learning from instrumental forms of learning and roots it in a vision of our human condition and of what is good for that condition.