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53A Critical Review of Charles Murray: Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality: Crown Forum, New York, 219 pp, Hardcover, List Price $24.95Studies in Philosophy and Education 28 (4): 369-374. 2009.
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4On Teacher Knowledge--Expanding the Dialogue [and] Response to Schrag, or, He Who Laughs Last..Educational Theory 39 (3): 267-72. 1989.
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72Children and democracy: Theory and policyPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 3 (3): 365-379. 2004.This article identifies four approaches to arguing for democracy, showing that none has an adequate way of supporting both full adult inclusion and the exclusion of children. I focus in Section 2 on the arguments of David Estlund and Thomas Christiano, showing that their arguments against guardianship call into question the exclusion of children from the franchise. In Section 3, I explain why the exclusion of children constitutes an injustice, and in the final section, I consider two approaches …Read more
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48The Child in the Moral OrderPhilosophy 52 (200). 1977.In the early 1700s the Flemish explorer Sicnarf Garhcs discovered a society, the Namuh, which he described in his two-volume compendium of primitive societies. As this society bears on my present topic, I begin with a summary of its salient features: It consists of two classes of people, the Tluda and the Dlihc, whom I shall hereafter refer to as the T's and the D's. Relative to the D's, the T's are strong, intelligent and knowledgeable about the world. The D's are weak, ignorant and dim-witted
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Areas of Interest
| Applied Ethics |
| Meta-Ethics |
| Normative Ethics |