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21Admitting a Sense of Superiority: Aggrandized Higher Education Status as an Objection to Educational InequalityStudies in Philosophy and Education 37 (6): 579-593. 2018.Recalling the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, the advancement of educational equality is often associated with the reduction of stigmatizing differences in status or “sense of inferiority” engendered by separately and differentially educated citizens. This essay takes up the obverse concern, the sense of superiority sustained by educational inequality, with particular focus on the inequality signaled by higher education status. I contend that the presence of aggrandiz…Read more
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11Ceci Ann’s Day of Why and The Philosophers ClubQuestions: Philosophy for Young People 9 13-13. 2009.
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40A Course Between Bureaucracy and Charisma: A Pedagogical Reading of Max Weber's Social TheoryJournal of Philosophy of Education 49 (1): 45-64. 2015.Philosophers of education tend to mention Max Weber's social theory in passing, assuming its importance and presuming its comprehension, but few have paused to consider how Weber's social theory might consciously inform educational theory and research, and none have done so comprehensively. The aim of this article is to begin this inquiry through a pedagogical reading of Weber's social theory. The basis of my inquiry is Weber's claim in ‘Science as a Vocation’ that the moral purpose of scholarsh…Read more
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46Towards a "What-If" ClassTeaching Ethics 15 (1): 83-96. Spring 2015.This paper contends that the primary aim of teaching ethics to court-involved youth should be the realization of respect. I make this argument by defining what is meant by a practice of respect using Bernard Williams’s "The Idea of Equality." I then couch this understanding in my recent experience leading a moral/political philosophy workshop with court-involved youth in Harlem, New York. Raising the objection that educational opportunity, not the practice of respect, should be the primary aim o…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |