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    Taliban forces of 75,000 overran the well-equipped 300,000+ strong Afghan army, trained and supported by US-NATO military, in a world-shattering week that toppled the US Afghan client regime and bo...
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    Western civilization 101
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1582-1590. 2023.
    The concept of civilization in the West recognizes the origins of the term in civitas and civilité as the development of civil society and, in particular, the expression of the history of sympathy,...
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    Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophy
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1599-1607. 2023.
    COVV: I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit. (Pause.) It’s easy going. (Pause.) When I fall I’ll weep for happiness. (Pause. He goes towards door.)HAMM: Clov! (C...
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    The term ‘neoliberalism’ passed into popular usage among left-wing commentators in the late 1970s as an essentially pejorative short-hand description for free market policies that were developed an...
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    Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and Canada
    with Liz Jackson, Kal Alston, Lauren Bialystok, Larry Blum, Nicholas C. Burbules, Ann Chinnery, David T. Hansen, Kathy Hytten, Cris Mayo, Trevor Norris, Sarah M. Stitzlein, Winston C. Thompson, Leonard Waks, and Marek Tesar
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1130-1146. 2022.
    This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps...
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    11 Humanism, Derrida, and the new humanities
    In Gert Biesta & Denise Egéa-Kuehne (eds.), Derrida & Education, Routledge. pp. 10--209. 2001.
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    Historizing Subjectivity in Childhood Studies
    with Viktor Johansson
    Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 11 42-61. 2012.
    Historizing Subjectivity in Childhood Studies
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    Introduction: education, philosophy and politics -- Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogy -- Nietzsche, nihilism and the critique of modernity: post-Nietzschean philosophy of education -- Heidegger, education and modernity -- Truth-telling as an educational practice of the self: Foucault and the ethics of subjectivity -- Neoliberal governmentality: Foucault on the birth of biopolitics -- Lyotard, nihilism and education -- Gilles Deleuze's 'societies of control': from disciplina…Read more
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    Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the PESA executive
    with Sonja Arndt, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, Ruyu Hung, Carl Mika, Janis T. Ozolins, Christoph Teschers, Janet Orchard, Rachel Buchanan, Andrew Madjar, Rene Novak, Tina Besley, Sean Sturm, Peter Roberts, and Andrew Gibbons
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1061-1082. 2022.
    Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co...
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Why the Present Emphasis on Thinking? Kinds of Thinking: Heidegger on What is Called Thinking? Wittgenstein on Thinking Styles of Reasoning Notes References.
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    Global Britain’: The China challenge and Post-Brexit Britain as a ‘science superpower
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (8): 871-876. 2023.
    The British PM Boris Johnson is impressed with the way British science ‘liberated’ the public from Covid-19. He is reported as indicating that never before has the British people owed so much to sc...
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    AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education – Critical responses
    with Liz Jackson, Marianna Papastephanou, Petar Jandrić, George Lazaroiu, Colin W. Evers, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Daniel Araya, Marek Tesar, Carl Mika, Lei Chen, Chengbing Wang, Sean Sturm, Sharon Rider, and Steve Fuller
    Educational Philosophy and Theory. forthcoming.
    Michael A PetersBeijing Normal UniversityChatGPT is an AI chatbot released by OpenAI on November 30, 2022 and a ‘stable release’ on February 13, 2023. It belongs to OpenAI’s GPT-3 family (generativ...
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    Contemporary Chinese Marxism: Basic research orientations
    with Liu Xiang, Liu Ying, Yang Liyin, Lei Chen, Xue Ji, Zhang Libo, Nie Jinfang, Wu Xiangdong, Wang Yichuan, and Chengbing Wang
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (11): 1740-1753. 2022.
    Chengbing WangShanxi University, Taiyuan, ChinaMichael A. PetersBeijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaContemporary Chinese Marxism is not only an important theory in the humanities and social sc...
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    Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogy
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 34 (2). 2000.
    In this paper I investigate ‘the confessional’ as an aspect of Wittgenstein's style both as a mode of philosophising and as a mode of ‘writing the self’, tied explicitly to pedagogical practices. There are strong links between Wittgenstein's confessional mode of philosophising and his life—for him philosophy is a way of life —and interesting theoretical connections between confessional practices and pedagogy, usefully explored in the writings of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault. The Inves…Read more
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    Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator. Arguing for the centrality of education to Wittgenstein’s life and works, the authors resist any reduction of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to remarks on pedagogy while addressing the current controversy surrounding the role of training in the enculturation process. Significant events in his education and …Read more
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    Wittgenstein at Cambridge: Philosophy as a way of life
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (8): 767-778. 2018.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein was a reclusive and enigmatic philosopher, writing his most significant work off campus in remote locations. He also held a chair in the Philosophy Department at Cambridge, and is one of the university’s most recognized even if, as Ray Monk says, ‘reluctant professors’ of philosophy. Paradoxically, although Wittgenstein often showed contempt for the atmosphere at Cambridge and for academic philosophy in particular, it is hard to conceive of him making his significant contribu…Read more
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    The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics
    with Stephanie Hollings, Benjamin Green, and Moses Oladele Ogunniran
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 707-716. 2022.
    The World Health Organization has been subjected to serious criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 virus, specifically that it failed to act decisively to stop the global outbreak and tha...
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    The University and the New Humanities
    Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 3 (1): 41-57. 2004.
    Recently, Derrida has pointed to the university to come and the future of the professions within a place of resistance, and yet maintained the historical link to two ideas that mediate and condition both the humanities and the performative structure of acts of profession: human rights and crimes against humanity. Derrida maintains that the ‘modern university should be unconditional’, by which he means that it should have the ‘freedom’ to assert, to question, to profess, and to ‘say everything’ i…Read more
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    The end of the decade: Reflecting on 2019 and looking forward to the next decade
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (9): 1271-1275. 2022.
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    Rarely in economics does the field see such unambiguous causation as in the case of the Covid-19 shut down of the global economy. Pretty well every economist would agree to this proposition and whi...
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    In a range of path-breaking publications that shaped his engagement with educational theory Paul Smeyers sympathetically investigated the claims and ‘atmosphere’ of postmodernism. In this chapter I investigate the backlash against postmodernism that holds it responsible for ‘post-truth politics,’ and of promoting a cynical attitude to truth and facts. I argue for an intellectual history of truth in which it is contested, not only in Continental tradition and in what some have called postmodernis…Read more
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    Thinking again or thinking differently?
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 32 (3). 2000.
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    Reading Wittgenstein: The Rehersal of Prejudice A response to Dr. McCarty
    with James Marshall
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 21 (3): 263-271. 2002.
    No abstract available
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    Postmodernism in the afterlife
    with Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, and Tina Besley
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (4): 325-327. 2022.
    [This editorial is part of the 50th celebration issue that explored ‘what comes after postmodernism in educational theory. The special issue is being published as a monograph and this is our group...
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    On the epistemology of conspiracy
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (14): 1413-1417. 2021.
    One way of looking at conspiracy is to consider it a deliberately enhanced political weapon cultivated by those who push ‘fake news’ in a post-truth media environment. Thus, the story that Obama’s...
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    Our article relocates the debate about creative labour to the terrain of peer-to-peer interneting as the paradigmatic form of nonmarket – social – production. From Yann Moulier Boutang we take the point that creative labour is immaterial; it is expressed through people connected by the internet. Drawing on two social systems thinkers, Francis Heylighen and Wolfgang Hofkirchner, we transpose this connectedness up to a conception of creative labour as a supra-individual collective intelligence. Th…Read more