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11Aristotle's Educational Politics and the Aristotelain Renaissance in Philosophy of EducationOxford Review of Education 5 (36): 543-559. 2010.This paper assesses the historical meaning and contemporary significance of Aristotle’s educational ideas. It begins with a broad characterization of the project of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, which he calls “political science” (hê politikê epistêmê), and the central place of education in his vision of statesmanship. It proceeds through a series of topics fundamental to his educational ideas, culminating in the account of education in Politics VIII. A concluding section appraise…Read more
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11Wisdom and the Origins of Moral KnowledgeIn Elisa Grimi, John Haldane, Maria Margarita Mauri Alvarez, Michael Wladika, Marco Damonte, Michael Slote, Randall Curren, Christian B. Miller, Liezl Zyl, Christopher D. Owens, Scott J. Roniger, Michele Mangini, Nancy Snow & Christopher Toner (eds.), Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect, Springer. pp. 67-80. 2019.Aristotle presents his Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as an ordered pair comprising political science (hê politikê epistêmê), suggesting an axiomatic structure of theorems that are demonstratively deduced from first principles. He holds that this systematic knowledge of ethical and legislative matters provides the ‘universals’ essential to phronesis or practical wisdom, and that its acquisition begins in sound habituation. Aristotle thereby assigns habituation an epistemic role that must be und…Read more
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11Justice, instruction, and the good: The case for public education in Aristotle and Plato's LawsStudies in Philosophy and Education 12 (2-4): 103-126. 1993.This paper develops an interpretation and analysis of the arguments for public education which open Book VIII of Aristotle's Politics, drawing on both the wider Aristotelian corpus and on examination of continuities with Plato's Laws.Part II: Sections IV–VII examine the arguments for the first of the two conclusions which Aristotle advances in VIII. 1, namely that education is important enough to merit the legislator's attention. It is shown, through a development of links between Politics V and…Read more
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9Reply to Costa, Kleinig, and MacMullenJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (3): 410-422. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 410-422, Fall 2021.
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8Reconciling Feminist and Socio-political Grounds of Classroom AuthorityPhilosophy of Education 60 197-204. 2004.
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8Ethics for Philosophers: An IntroductionSATS 24 (1): 13-28. 2023.This paper addresses the responsibilities of philosophers. It distinguishes philosophers by profession, philosophers as a type of person playing a social role by doing philosophy, and philosophers without any professional or social role as a philosopher. It criticizes and rejects the internal goods view of philosophers’ responsibilities, according to which a philosopher’s only responsibility as a philosopher is to do ‘good’ philosophy. It examines the responsibilities of philosophy professors an…Read more
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8Peters Redux: The Motivational Power of Inherently Valuable LearningJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (3): 731-743. 2020.
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7In Their Best Interest? The Case Against Equal Rights For Children (review)Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 12 (4): 44-45. 1996.
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4Can Virtue be Measured?Theory and Research in Education 3 (12): 266-283. 2014.This paper explores some general considerations bearing on the question of whether virtue can be measured. What is moral virtue? What are measurement and evaluation, and what do they presuppose about the nature of what is measured or evaluated? What are the prospective contexts of, and purposes for, measuring or evaluating virtue, and how would these shape the legitimacy, methods, and likely success of measurement and evaluation? We contrast the realist presuppositions of virtue and measurem…Read more
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3Cultivating the intellectual and moral virtuesIn David Carr & J. W. Steutel (eds.), Virtue Ethics and Moral Education, Routledge. pp. 67--81. 1999.
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2Friday Night Lights Out: The End of Football in SchoolsHarvard Educational Review 2 (88): 141-162. 2018.
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1Educational Measurement and Knowledge of Other MindsTheory and Research in Education 3 (2): 235-253. 2004.
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1Academic Standards and Constitutive LuckIn Maureen Eckert & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn, . pp. 13-32. 2009.
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1A Neo-Aristotelian Account of Education, Justice, and the Human GoodTheory and Research in Education 3 (11): 232-250. 2013.
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Enabling everyone to live wellIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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Fred D. Miller, Jr., Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics , xvii + 424 pp., Cloth $49.95, Paper $24.95 (review)Reason Papers 22 144-153. 1997.
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Virtue Epistemology and EducationIn Heather Battaly (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology. pp. 470-482. 2019.This chapter addresses some basic questions about the cultivation of responsibilist intellectual virtue. What is intellectual virtue? How are specific intellectual virtues defined and how do they contribute to intellectual virtue in general? What are the epistemic goods at which intellectual virtue and virtues aim? What justifies education in epistemic virtue, understood as a state of intellectual character? How should the motivational aspect of epistemic character be understood? How can educato…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Moral Psychology, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Education, Misc |