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Keynote Speakers

Since 2008, the Philosophical Studies SIG has sponsored an invited lecture following the annual business meeting. 

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The 2021 lecture was given by Barbara Stengel (Vanderbilt University). The title of her talk was, “Why AERA Needs the Philosophical Studies SIG:  A Critical Pragmatist View of Responsibility in Education.”

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Previous invited lecturers have included:

  • 2021: Winston Thompson, The Ohio State University

  • 2020: Meeting cancelled due to COVID-19

  • 2019: Meira Levinson, Harvard University and Jacob Fay, Bowdoin College

  • 2018: Jennifer Morton, CUNY

  • 2017: Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Miami University

  • 2016: Sigal Ben-Porath, University of Pennsylvania

  • 2015: Chris Higgins, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

  • 2014: Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • 2013: Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma

  • 2012: Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

  • 2011: Gert Biesta, University of Stirling

  • 2010: Donna Kerr, University of Washington

  • 2009: Sharon Todd, Stockholm University

  • 2008: David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University

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