In recent decades, philosophy has been identified as a general approach to enhance the maturity of higher education as a field of study by enriching theory and method. In this article, I offer a new set of philosophical recommendations to spur the disciplinary development of higher education, departing from previous work in several meaningful ways. Due to their deep and useful connections to higher education research, philosophy of measurement, virtue epistemology, and Bayesian epistemology are introduced and discussed in relation to their conceptual association and potential practical influence on the study of higher education. The culmination of these points signals a learnercentered lens focused on the development of students.

在最近的几十年中，哲学已经被认为是通过丰富理论和方法来提高高等教育作为研究领域的成熟度的一种通用方法。在本文中，我提供了一系列新的哲学建议，以促进高等教育的学科发展，并以几种有意义的方式背离了先前的工作。由于它们与高等教育研究之间的深层和有益联系，因此介绍并讨论了测量哲学，美德认识论和贝叶斯认识论，以及它们的概念联系和对高等教育研究的潜在实际影响。这些观点的高潮标志着一个以学习者为中心的视角，专注于学生的发展。