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92Wittgenstein as Exile: A philosophical topographyEducational Philosophy and Theory 40 (5): 591-605. 2008.This paper argues that Wittgenstein considered himself an exile and indeed was a self‐imposed exile from his native Vienna; that this condition of exile is important for understanding Wittgenstein the man and his philosophy; and that exile as a condition has become both a central characteristic condition of late modernity (as much as alienation was for the era of industrial capitalism) and emblematic of literary modernism. The paper employs the notion of ‘exhilic thought’ as a central trope for …Read more
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39Wittgenstein at Cambridge: Philosophy as a way of lifeEducational 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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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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25Video 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 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 that was established in 2016. The paper is the result of a collective writing process over a period of a few months that dis…Read more
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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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3US-China relations: Towards strategic partnershipsEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (5): 545-550. 2023.
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32Trade wars, technology transfer, and the future Chinese techno-stateEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (9): 867-870. 2018.Volume 51, Issue 9, August 2019, Page 867-870.
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10The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politicsEducational 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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20The University and the New HumanitiesArts 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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14The Unforeseen: Education and the flowers of sacrificeEducational Philosophy and Theory 48 (6). 2016.
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13Technological unemployment: Educating for the fourth industrial revolutionEducational Philosophy and Theory 49 (1): 1-6. 2017.
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21The threat of nuclear war: Peace studies in an apocalyptic ageEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (1): 1-4. 2017.
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25The snake oil charms of positive psychologyEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (11): 1116-1119. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 11, October 2020, Page 1116-1119.
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27The Royal Society, the making of ‘science’ and the social history of truthEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (3): 227-232. 2018.The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, the so-called Royal Society, was founded in 1660. Charles II granted a royal charter in 1662 const...
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24The return of fascism: Youth, violence and nationalismEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (7): 674-678. 2019.
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68The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political AsylumEducational Philosophy and Theory 47 (13-14): 1367-1374. 2015.
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17The refugee camp as the biopolitical paradigm of the westEducational Philosophy and Theory 50 (13): 1165-1168. 2017.
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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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24The open peer review experiment in Educational Philosophy and Theory(EPAT)Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (2): 133-140. 2023.Open Peer Review: Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT)Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University, PR ChinaIn 2016 EPAT started experimenting with open peer review for articles that were part...
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15Trump’s nationalism, ‘the end of globalism’, and ‘the age of patriotism’: ‘the future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots.’Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-6. forthcoming..
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44The information wars, fake news and the end of globalisationEducational Philosophy and Theory 50 (13): 1161-1164. 2017.
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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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6The last large blue butterflyEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (11): 1113-1115. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 11, October 2020, Page 1113-1115.
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18Theorising immaterial labor: Toward creativity, co(labor)ation and collective intelligenceEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (12): 1283-1294. 2021.Marx developed a sophisticated theory of labour under capitalism’s expanding reproduction but wrote little specifically on immaterial labour. This paper reflects on how to build from Marx’s writings a more comprehensive theory of immaterial labour. Integral to this theorisation is bringing in young Marx’s writings on alienation and human nature, and praxis read as the ‘point of knowledge is to change the world’. Integrating the young and mature work into a single perspective that highlights the …Read more
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8The geopolitical rebirth of the Anglosphere as a world actor after BrexitEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (11): 1193-1196. 2023.Over two billion people speak English making English the largest world language by number of speakers but only the third largest by number of native speakers of English. Anglophonia has a number of...
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37The Humanist Bias in Western Philosophy and EducationEducational Philosophy and Theory 47 (11): 1128-1135. 2015.This paper argues that the bias in Western philosophy is tied to its humanist ideology that pictures itself as central to the natural history of humanity and is historically linked to the emergence of humanism as pedagogy.
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57Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and OpennessBritish Journal of Educational Studies 58 (1): 67-88. 2010.This paper outlines and reviews three forms and associated discourses of the 'knowledge economy': the 'learning economy', based on the work of Bengt-Åke Lundvall; the 'creative economy' based on the work of Charles Landry, John Howkins and Richard Florida; and the 'open knowledge economy' based on the work of Yochai Benkler and others. Arguably, these three forms and discourses represent three recent related but different conceptions of the knowledge economy, each with clear significance and imp…Read more
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8The failure of liberalism and liberal educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 52 (9): 918-922. 2019.Volume 52, Issue 9, August 2020, Page 918-922.
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