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(1997) Synthese 111 (1).
Responding to claims to the contrary, this essay shows how liberal education, the education of critical exposure, indoctrinates students into a style of belief and belief formation. It argues that a common liberal view about what constitutes freedom from indoctrination is precisely the form of indoctrination feared by many conservative communitarians. While I support the style and procedures of liberal education, I argue that we cannot excise all indoctrinating components from it by semantic, logical or epistemic analyses of what “indoctrination” or “education” means.
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Harvey, C. (1997). Liberal indoctrination and the problem of community. Synthese 111 (1), pp. 115-130.