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2Review of Philip Kitcher: The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education (review)Ethics 134 (2): 299-304. 2023.
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10The Analytical MovementIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: The Early Decades of Analytical Philosophy Analytic Philosophy of Education Criticism Contemporary Practice.
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7The Epistemic Value of DiversityIn Ben Kotzee (ed.), Education and the Growth of Knowledge, Wiley. 2013-12-25.This article briefly considers current positions about whether the inclusion of the perspectives and interests of marginalised groups in the construction of knowledge is of epistemic value. It is then argued that applied social epistemology is the proper epistemic stance to take in evaluating this question. Theorists who have held that diversity makes an epistemic contribution are interpreted as attempting to reform social pathways to knowledge in ways that make true belief more likely. Thus, th…Read more
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3The Role of Understanding in Meeting the Moral Demands of RemembrancePhilosophy of Education 67 136-138. 2011.
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8Teaching Politics in Secondary Education: Engaging with Contentious IssuesEducational Theory 69 (5): 631-637. 2019.
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34Broadening the debate: Comments on Michael J. Feuer's moderating the debateEducational Theory 59 (5): 503-510. 2009.. In Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education, Michael Feuer argues that insights from cognitive science and the theory of bounded rationality can help us understand why educational policy makers overreach in seeking optimal solutions to educational problems. In this essay, Emily Robertson argues that cognitive science is of limited help for two reasons. First, since the findings of the theory of bounded rationality are supposed to describe how we actually do make…Read more
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64The Epistemic Value of DiversityJournal of Philosophy of Education 47 (2): 299-310. 2013.This article briefly considers current positions about whether the inclusion of the perspectives and interests of marginalised groups in the construction of knowledge is of epistemic value. It is then argued that applied social epistemology is the proper epistemic stance to take in evaluating this question. Theorists who have held that diversity makes an epistemic contribution are interpreted as attempting to reform social pathways to knowledge in ways that make true belief more likely. Thus, th…Read more
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Aims of education. The epistemic aims of educationIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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93The epistemic aims of educationIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press. pp. 11--34. 2009.
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