The Philosophy of Maria Montessori with Patrick Frierson

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The Philosopy of Maria Montessori with Patrick Frierson

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There are over 20,000 Montessori schools in more than 110 countries around the world, including at least 5,000 in the United States. Even more schools are influenced in one way or another by the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori. Maria Montessori was one of the first women to practice medicine in Italy, a nominee for the Nobel Peace prize, an influential early 20th century psychologist, and a philosopher who wove together insights from her philosophical education with careful attention to children’s own insights in order to create a compelling philosophy of the human person.

In this talk, Professor Frierson will lay out a few highlights of Maria Montessori’s overall philosophy, with a focus on what she sees as excellence in human life and thought. The talk will draw on Frierson’s recent book on Montessori’s epistemology—Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective—and his forthcoming book on Montessori’s moral philosophy.

Patrick Frierson is the Paul Pigott and William M. Allen Professor of Philosophy at Whitman College. He teaches courses in the history of European philosophy from roughly 1600 to the present as well as philosophy of education, environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, ethics, logic, and a wide range of independent studies. He is the author of several books on the eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant; dozens of articles on philosophers including Rene Descartes, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and Maria Montessori; and most recently a new book on Montessori, Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective. He is currently working on a book entitled Maria Montessori’s Moral Philosophy; his work is funded through a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This summer, he has received excellent assistance with the book from a wonderful Whitman student through the Faculty-Student Summer Research program.