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19Infantologies. An EPAT collective writing projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 1-19. forthcoming.Infantologies is a collective writing project designed to express and summarise important ideas, approaches and forms of advocacy in a short and condensed method, in order to present a network of d...
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7The coming pandemic eraEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 656-661. 2022.There is evidence and informed expert opinion that we are entering a coming age of pandemics where humanity is exposed to lethal and highly infectious bacterial or viral diseases that have the pote...
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3Alas America! Lament for a shattered dream on the eve of political breakdownEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (4): 393-397. 2023.America, this is your chance. We must get it right this time or risk losing our democracy forever. —Michelle AlexanderEven some conservatives fear a power grab might trigger the disintegration of t...
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17Ascetic self-cultivation, Foucault and the hermeneutics of the selfEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1936-1941. 2022.We don’t know ourselves, we knowledgeable people – we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there’s good reason for that. We’ve never tried to find out who we are – how could it happen that...
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15Post-marxism, humanism and (post)structuralism: Educational philosophy and theoryEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14): 2331-2340. 2022.Western Marxism, since its Western deviation and theoretical development in the 1920s, developed in diverse ways that has reflected the broader philosophical environment. First, a theory of conscio...
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31Collective writing: Introspective reflections on current experienceEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (9): 1296-1306. 2022.Sonja Arndt, Michael Peters, Marek Tesar Introspection is a key concept in epistemology, since introspective knowledge is often thought to be particularly secure, maybe even immune to skeptical dou...
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23Language-games philosophy: Language-games as rationality and methodEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1929-1935. 2022.Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games. Imagination creates the games that reason proceeds to play. Then, exemplified by people such as Plato and Newton, it keeps mod...
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22Educational philosophies of self-cultivation: Chinese humanismEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (11): 1720-1726. 2022.Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the foundation and cultural ethos for education have a strong and historically effective tradition stretching back to antiquity in the classical ‘cra...
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31Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Voices from JapanTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-17. forthcoming..
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23US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading accountEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1501-1512. 2022.In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i...
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18Limiting the capacity for hate: Hate speech, hate groups and the philosophy of hateEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14): 2325-2330. 2022.On May 8, 2020, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General warned on Twitter ‘the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering’ ‘appealin...
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27Cryptocurrencies, China's sovereign digital currency (DCEP) and the US dollar systemEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (11): 1713-1719. 2022.The Central Bank of China is testing its Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) in the cities of Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xunan with the involvement of four large state-owned banks in the...
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15Žižek on China and COVID-19: Wuhan, authoritarian capitalism, and empathetic socialism in NZEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 651-655. 2022.On my visit to the city Wuhan in 1999 I was invited to the philosophy department at Wuhan University to give a couple of lectures on Wittgenstein. The city was in the middle of a merger of three un...
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67Philosophy of education in a new key: Education for justice nowEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1083-1098. 2022.Marianna PapastephanouUniversity of CyprusSince Plato’s allegory of the cave two educational-philosophical critical modes have stood out: the descriptive (reality as it is) and the normative (reali...
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33Philosophy of education in a new key: Cultivating a living philosophy of education to overcome coloniality and violence in African UniversitiesTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-14. forthcoming..
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23Go home, team America: The new paradox of western ‘democracy’ around the worldEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (11): 1109-1112. 2020.Volume 52, Issue 11, October 2020, Page 1109-1112.
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16Biopolitics, conspiracy and the immuno-state: an evolving global politico-genetic complexEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (2): 111-120. 2022.a. The literature on biopolitics emerged 1970s with Michel Foucault’s ‘Right of Death and Power over Life’, part five of The History of Sexuality: An Introduction :For a long time,...
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16‘Reality is an activity of the most august imagination’. When the world stops, it’s not a complete disaster – we can hear the birds sing!Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (3): 217-220. 2022.Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night,We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late.It was not a night blown at a glassworks in ViennaOr Venice, motionless, gathering time and dust.The...
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50Love and social distancing in the time of Covid-19: The philosophy and literature of pandemicsEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (8): 755-759. 2021.The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities. Wendy Orent, How Plagues Really Work,
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24A viral theory of post-truthEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 698-706. 2022.There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds, and it is characteristic of the system that basic error propagates itself.–Gregory Bateson, Steps Towards an Ecology of Mind...
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17Wittgenstein/Foucault/anti-philosophy: Contingency, community, and the ethics of self-cultivationEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1495-1500. 2022.A number of scholars have noted parallels and covergences between Wittgenstein and Foucault.1 Both thinkers focused on accounts of language and discourse as a means for understanding the social wor...
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40The Plague: Human resilience and the collective response to catastropheEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (1): 1-4. 2022.What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men [sic] to rise above themselves.– Albert Camus, The PlagueMany novelists and philosophers have commented on the them...
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36Viral modernity? Epidemics, infodemics, and the ‘bioinformational’ paradigmEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 675-697. 2022.Viral modernity is a concept based upon the nature of viruses, the ancient and critical role they play in evolution and culture, and the basic application to understanding the role of information and forms of bioinformation in the social world. The concept draws a close association between viral biology on the one hand, and information science on the other – it is an illustration and prime example of bioinformationalism that brings together two of the most powerful forces that now drive cultural…Read more
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31‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari – the social pathology of fascism in the 21st centuryTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-9. forthcoming..
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3The end of the decade: Reflecting on 2019 and looking forward to the next decadeTandf: Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-5. forthcoming..
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21Video ethics in educational research involving children: Literature review and critical discussionEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (9): 863-880. 2021.Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase in the use of visual mediums in research (such as photovoice and video) especially with the development of new and ubiquitous internet technologies and social media. This paper emerged as an expressed concerned by a group of scholars associated with the new Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (Brill) that was established in 2016. The paper is the result of a collective writing process…Read more
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Special issue—Philosophy of Science EducationEducational Philosophy and Theory 38 (5): 579-584. 2006.
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26An educational theory of innovation: What constitutes the educational good?Educational Philosophy and Theory 52 (10): 1016-1022. 2020.Volume 52, Issue 10, September 2020, Page 1016-1022.