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79Educational Justice, Epistemic Justice, and Leveling DownEducational Theory 63 (4): 331-350. 2013.Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that education is a positional good; this, they hold, implies that there is a qualified case for leveling down educational provision. In this essay, Ben Kotzee discusses Brighouse and Swift's argument for leveling down. He holds that the argument fails in its own terms and that, in presenting the problem of educational justice as one of balancing education's positional and nonpositional benefits, Brighouse and Swift lose sight of what a consideration of the n…Read more
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54Education and “thick” epistemologyEducational Theory 61 (5): 549-564. 2011.In this essay Ben Kotzee addresses the implications of Bernard Williams's distinction between “thick” and “thin” concepts in ethics for epistemology and for education. Kotzee holds that, as in the case of ethics, one may distinguish between “thick” and “thin” concepts of epistemology and, further, that this distinction points to the importance of the study of the intellectual virtues in epistemology. Following Harvey Siegel, Kotzee contends that “educated” is a thick epistemic concept, and he ex…Read more
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20Blind obedience: paradox and learning in the later Wittgenstein. By Meredith Williams;The formation of reason. By David BakhurstBritish Journal of Educational Studies 62 (1): 86-89. 2014.
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University of BirminghamSenior Lecturer
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
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Epistemology of Specific Domains |
Epistemic Normativity |
Social Epistemology |
The Aims of Education |
Educational Authority |
Moral Education |