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11Ethics 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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23Children of the Broken HeartlandsSocial Theory and Practice 49 (3): 385-411. 2023.This paper argues that rural children’s prospects of achieving civic equality within the wider society are limited by the fact that the education they receive is not inclusive, that this is in some respects unjust, and that some partial remedies are available. The non-inclusiveness of rural education is characterized as a form of rural isolation, defined by physical and cultural distance from pathways of opportunity that are significant for civic equality, and by failures of mutually recognized …Read more
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12The Analytical MovementIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: The Early Decades of Analytical Philosophy Analytic Philosophy of Education Criticism Contemporary Practice.
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78Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect (edited book)Springer. 2019.The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the current conversation about virtue. Among many other thought-provoking questions, the collection addresses the following: What are the virtues, and how are they enumerated? What are the internal problems among ethicists, and what are the objection…Read more
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8Reconciling Feminist and Socio-political Grounds of Classroom AuthorityPhilosophy of Education 60 197-204. 2004.
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A modest plea for collaborative history and philosophy of educationIn Antoinette Errante, Jackie M. Blount & Bruce A. Kimball (eds.), Philosophy and history of education: diverse perspectives on their value and relationship, Rowman & Littlefield. 2017.
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Enabling everyone to live wellIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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Enabling everyone to live wellIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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33Handbook of philosophy of education (edited book)Routledge. 2023.The Handbook of Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to the most important questions about education that are being addressed by philosophers today. Authored by an international team of distinguished philosophers, its thirty-five chapters address fundamental, timely, and controversial questions about educational aims, justice, policy, and practices. Section I (Fundamental Questions) addresses the aims of education, authority to educate, the roles of values and evidence in guiding edu…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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22Patriotic Education in a Global Age: A brief introductionJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (3): 377-382. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 377-382, Fall 2021.
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18Educational Goods and the Ethical Dimensions of Educational Policy and PracticeJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (5): 1375-1381. 2020.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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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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17Patriotic Education: A Response to Thompson, Rogach, and SockettStudies in Philosophy and Education 38 (6): 683-688. 2019.
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Virtue Epistemology and EducationIn Heather D. Battaly (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 470-482. 2018.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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Populism and the Fate of Civic FriendshipIn James Arthur (ed.), Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty, Routledge Press. pp. 92-107. 2018.Aristotle’s Politics offers both a broad diagnosis of the hazards of contemporary populism and a broad characterization of actionable remedies, and it does so in conjunction with an ideal of political societies as properly partnerships in living well, characterized by voluntary cooperation, mutual advantage, and civic friendship. The task of this paper is to explain the diagnosis, remedies, and ideals more fully and to illustrate their currency and value in contemporary political analysis. It a…Read more
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13Wisdom 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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19Introductory NoteMetaphilosophy 29 (3): 178-178. 1998.This is an introduction to a symposium on Augustine and education, featuring papers by Peter King, Gareth Matthews, and William Mann.
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1Educational Measurement and Knowledge of Other MindsTheory and Research in Education 3 (2): 235-253. 2004.
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Cardinal Virtues of Academic AdministrationTheory and Research in Education 3 (6): 63-86. 2008.The aim of this paper is to articulate the basic elements of a comprehensive ethic of academic administration, organized around a set of three cardinal virtues: commitment to the good of the institution; good administrative judgment; and conscientiousness in discharging the duties of the office. In addition to explaining this framework and defending its adequacy, the paper develops an account of the nature of integrity, and argues that the three cardinal virtues of academic administration can be…Read more
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1Academic Standards and Constitutive LuckIn Maureen Eckert & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn, Lexington Books. pp. 13-32. 2009.
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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 |