John Tillson is Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

• 1. Introduction2. The Sources of Parental and Extra-Parental Responsibility3. The Content of Parental and Extra-Parental Responsibility4. Those Respects in which People Can Be Formatively Influenced5. What Forms Can and Should Influence Take?6. A Theory of Ethical Influence7. The Nature of Religion8. The Status of Religion9. How Children Ought to Be Formatively Influenced, with Respect to Religion(S)ReferencesIndex

I appreciate the emphasis on influence here as it so directly raises the question of the ethics of justification. In this sense, I find Tillson’s approach extremely engaging ... [The book] provides a vital discussion of questions of influence and its justification.