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398Understanding the Context for Existing Research and Reform ProposalsIn Greg J. Duncan & Richard J. Murnane (eds.), Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, Russell Sage. pp. 507--522. 2011.
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17Normative Case Studies and Thought Experiments: How They Differ and Why We Need BothEducational Theory 74 (3): 329-339. 2024.Thought experiments and normative case studies can play different and complementary roles in moral and political philosophizing. Thought experiments help us to sculpt and refine normative concepts and alert us to contradictions between intuitive judgments and basic principles, or among intuitive judgments, thus informing our reflective equilibrium about what fundamentally matters. Normative case studies assist us in judging how to trade off conflicting values in specified circumstances. Engaging…Read more
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39Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and Capabilities (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.This book brings together a team of leading theorists to address the question 'What is the right measure of justice?' Some contributors, following Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, argue that we should focus on capabilities, or what people are able to do and to be. Others, following John Rawls, argue for focussing on social primary goods, the goods which society produces and which people can use. Still others see both views as incomplete and complementary to one another. Their essays evaluate the…Read more
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19What's Wrong with Tuition‐Free Four‐Year Public College?Educational Theory 73 (6): 833-859. 2024.Advocates of tuition-free four-year public college make the argument for it too easy by asserting that it would be paid for out of taxes on the wealthy. Other uses of the revenues are possible. In this paper, Harry Brighouse and Kailey Mullane establish two criteria for comparing different uses of the revenues: the first criterion is, will the policy increase the overall level of educational goods?, and the second is, will the policy reduce inequalities of educational goods? Here, Brighouse and …Read more
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29Toward a New SocialismLexington Books. 2006.Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. Dr. Richard Schmitt joins with Dr. Anatole Anton to compile a volume of essays exploring the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle
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22Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s PhilosopherJournal of Philosophy of Education 57 (2): 575-581. 2023.This article looks at Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty’s Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher (2022), specifically considering how Matthews conceptualized philosophy and how he found philosophy in children’s literature.
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16The Educational Responsibilities of PhilosophersSATS 24 (1): 53-69. 2023.Perpetuating the discipline of philosophy is not the main educational responsibility of philosophers. Instead, it is to equip students with those distinctively philosophical intellectual resources that will serve students in serving the public good through participation in the economy (broadly conceived) and democratic life. Given this responsibility philosophers, individually and collectively, have a duty to take teaching and learning more seriously than they do. The paper offers some confident…Read more
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8Educational Justice and Socio‐Economic Segregation in SchoolsIn Mark Halstead & Graham Haydon (eds.), The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-10.This chapter contains sections titled: I Justice in Education II The Comprehensive Ideal III Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Injustice IV Liberty, Family Values and Justice V Justice without Structural Reform? VI Justice without De‐Segregation? VII Concluding Comment Notes References.
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13Educational Equality and JusticeIn Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Objections.
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72Book Symposium: Harry Brighouse, School Choice and Social JusticeStudies in Philosophy and Education 20 (5): 387-421. 2001.
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115Liberal PluralismPhilosophical Review 113 (1): 127-129. 2004.William Galston has developed a distinctive position within the spectrum of liberal views. His liberalism is comprehensive and pluralistic. But, unlike, say, Joseph Raz’s liberalism, which is also comprehensive and pluralistic, it does not self-consciously privilege one of those plural values to guide our judgments about the political conflicts that will inevitably occur in a pluralistic society.
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58Family values reconsidered: a responseCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3): 385-405. 2018.
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109Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child RelationshipsPrinceton University Press. 2014.The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should—and should not—have over their children. Harry Brighouse and Adam Sw…Read more
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48Family Ethics and Public Policy: Beyond the Medical ModelAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (11): 56-58. 2018.
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3308Educational equality versus educational adequacy: A critique of Anderson and SatzJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2): 117-128. 2009.Some theorists argue that rather than advocating a principle of educational equality as a component of a theory of justice in education, egalitarians should adopt a principle of educational adequacy. This paper looks at two recent attempts to show that adequacy, not equality, constitutes justice in education. It responds to the criticisms of equality by claiming that they are either unsuccessful or merely show that other values are also important, not that equality is not important. It also argu…Read more
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83Redistributing education among the less advantaged: A problem for principles of justice?Social Philosophy and Policy 31 (1): 109-134. 2014.
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Creating Civil Citizens? The Value and Limits of Teaching Civility in SchoolsIn Macleod Colin & Tappolet Christine (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Moral and Civic Education: Shaping Citizens, Routledge. 2019.Andrée-Anne Cormier and Harry Brighouse explore the question of whether there are good reasons for schools to try and produce citizens disposed to use, and practiced in, civil discourse and behavior, and if so, what this implies for schools. First, the authors propose an account of the value (and disvalue) of civility, drawing on Cheshire Calhoun’s conception. They argue that civility is good in many circumstances, but not always. In some circumstances, it is neither beneficial nor morally requi…Read more
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An education resource account for early school leaversIn Greg Bognar & Axel Gosseries (eds.), Ageing Without Ageism: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals, Oxford University Press. 2023.This chapter argues that school should cease to be compulsory at age 16 and that an education resource account (ERA) should be established for students who leave school at that age. The ERA would be sufficient to cover three years of full-time education. It could be linked to inflation and early school leavers could use it in accredited non-profit educational institutions at any later point in their lives. Two sets of arguments are discussed in support of the proposal. The first, building on the…Read more
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15Educational goods: values, evidence, and decision makingUniversity of Chicago Press. 2018.We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In Educational Goods, two philosophers and two social scientists address this very question. They begin by broadening the language for talking about educational policy: “educational goods” are the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that children develop for their own ben…Read more
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Values and evidence in educational decision-makingIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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1Who should make decisions about children's education?In Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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