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7Russia-China/China-Russia: Sino-Russian relations in the post-Soviet eraEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1664-1671. 2023.China, the most populous country in the world after India with 1.4 billion people, shares a 4200 km (2600 mi) border with Russia, the country with the world’s largest geographical territory, roughl...
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12The Philosophy of Higher Education: A Critical Introduction, by Ronald Barnett, Routledge, 2022, 290 pp., USD32.95, ISBN 9780367610289. The philosophy of higher education: A critical introduction, byRonald Barnett,Routledge,2022,290 pp.,USD32.95, ISBN 9780367610289 (review)Educational Philosophy and Theory 56 (4): 392-398. 2024.In many ways, Ron Barnett’s academic oeuvre is unique. Without a doubt, he is one of the (if not the) most central founding academics of the research field ‘the philosophy of higher education’, whi...
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6Public Intellectuals, Viral Modernity and the Problem of TruthBritish Journal of Educational Studies 70 (5): 557-573. 2022.Public intellectuals today must be understood in relation to the concept of ‘viral modernity’, characterised by viral and open media and technologies of post-truth that reveal the dramatic transformations of the ‘public’, its forms and its future possibilities. The history, status and role of the public intellectual are constituted by both the network of law in liberal society and above all the primacy of the concept of freedom of expression. The task of public intellectuals was to define, analy…Read more
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8Science, truth and conspiracy in the age of TrumpEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1647-1652. 2023.‘In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act’– George OrwellDonald Trump is on the come-back trail even although the ‘red wave did not originate at the midterms. Despite the deadly...
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24The emerging multipolar world order: A preliminary analysisEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1653-1663. 2023.The model of world order has changed dramatically in the postwar era from the bipolarity between the US and Soviet Russia that characterized the Cold War, to a period of unipolarity after the fall...
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4Contesting governing ideologies: an educational philosophy and theory reader on neoliberalism (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2018.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Citation Information -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophy and Performance of Neoliberal Ideologies: History, Politics and Human Subjects -- 2 Neo-Liberal Education Policy and the Ideology of Choice -- 3 Varieties of Neo-Liberalism: a Foucaultian Perspective -- 4 The Labouring Sleepwalker: Evocation and Expression as Modes of Qualitative Educational Research -- 5 The Learning Society, the Unfinished Cosmopolitan, and Governing Education, Public Health and Cri…Read more
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4In search of subjectivities: an educational philosophy and theory teacher education reader (edited book)Routledge. 2015.While traditionally identified as a practice-based endeavour, the many dimensions of teacher education raise important philosophical issues that emphasise the centrality of ethics to questions of relationality and professional practice. This second volume of the Educational Philosophy and Theory reader series demonstrates the continuing relevance of philosophical approaches to the field of teacher education. The collection of texts focuses on a wide range of topics, including teacher education i…Read more
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2Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of DifferenceRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Reinvigorating critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of inclusiveness that respect and build on parallel traditions, the authors reinterpret Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger in relation to central figures and themes of critical theory.
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11Aphorisms, waste-books and the philosophy of short forms: Wittgenstein and LichtenbergEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1960-1967. 2022.
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35Semiconductors, geopolitics and technological rivalry: The US CHIPS & Science Act, 2022Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1642-1646. 2023.In 2021 global sales in semiconductors reached $556 billion, with the US accounting for 46% of the global market, yet as Zhi Su (2022) reports: ‘The share of modern semiconductor manufacturing capa...
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19Contemporary Chinese Marxism: Social visions and philosophy of education – An EPAT collective projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10): 1550-1559. 2022.
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19The aesthetics of collective writing: A Chinese/Western collective essayEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (8): 888-896. 2023.Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityThe ancient concept of ‘self-cultivation’ with its roots in Confucianism and Hellenistic philosophy can also be utilised as tool for understanding the prac...
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13Biodigital philosophy, supercomputing and technological convergence in the Quantum AgeEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1628-1641. 2023.In the first phase, information technology revolutionizes biology. In the next phase, biology will revolutionize information technology. And that will totally, once again, revolutionize economies....
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13Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘ the end of the world’Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1617-1627. 2023.What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism. This history can be related even now; for necessity i...
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25Russian apocalypse, Christian fascism and the dangers of a limited nuclear warEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (12): 1311-1315. 2023.
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5Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptic survivalEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (10): 1065-1068. 2023.The world faces a triple apocalypse: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the huge unnecessary loss of life and the disastrous prospect of a limited ‘tactical’ nuclear war; the Covid pandemic that has...
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544Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Who Remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and Environment after the CoronavirusEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (14): 1421-1441. 2021.This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. The paper is collectively written by 15 authors who responded to the question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes and corresponding sections. The first section, ‘As we bake the earth, let's try and bake it from scratc…Read more
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20New age spiritualism, mysticism, and far-right conspiracyEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1608-1616. 2023.When the moon is in the Seventh HouseAnd Jupiter aligns with MarsThen peace will guide the planetsAnd love will steer the starsThis is the dawning of the age of Aquarius–‘The Age of Aquarius’, 5th...
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1This multi-authored collection covers the methodology and philosophy of collective writing. It is based on a series of articles written by the authors in Educational Philosophy and Theory, Open Review of Educational Research and Knowledge Cultures to explore the concept of collective writing. This tenth volume in the Editor's Choice series provides insights into the philosophy of academic writing and peer review, peer production, collective intelligence, knowledge socialism, openness, open scien…Read more
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10"This book is a collection of essays motivated by a 'cultural' reading of Wittgenstein. It includes some new essays and some that were originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. It includes a distinctive view on the ethics of reading Wittgenstein and the ethics of suicide that shaped him. It also examines the reception and engagement with Wittgenstein's work in French philosophy with a chapter on post-analytic philosophy of education as a choice between Richard Rorty and Jean-Fra…Read more
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1Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical PhilosopherRoutledge. 2008.Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative, innovative, and playful readings of his work. They vividly demonstrate the influence of his thinking and its centrality to understanding our contemporary condition. Wittgenstein fundamentally shaped contemporary theories of language, representation, cognition, and learning. The book also traces the “…Read more
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12A tribute to Kevin Harris, philosopher of educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 1-11. forthcoming.
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7Wittgenstein, mysticism and the ‘religious point of view’: ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent’Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1952-1959. 2022.The religious and spiritual aspects of Wittgenstein, his understanding of ‘das mystiche’ and his philosophy understood against the background of German mysticism has been commented on by authors to...
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13Wittgenstein, Nāgārjuna and relational quantum mechanicsEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (12): 1942-1951. 2022.My propositions serve as elucidations in this way: he who understands me eventually recognises them as nonsensical, when he has used them – as steps – to climb up over them. (He must, so to speak,...
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11Digital trade, digital economy and the digital economy partnership agreement (DEPA)Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (7): 747-755. 2023.
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6China’s rise, the Asian century and the clash of meta-civilizationsEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (6): 674-684. 2023.Michael A. Peters Beijing Normal UniversityDeclinism is back in fashion again. It is now a common and persistent source of historical reflection that has been a constant theme since the first Chris...