Educating Responsible Believers
- Location
- Vaughan Jeffreys Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Education Building (R19)
- Dates
- Tuesday 26 March 2024 (09:30-17:45)
A one-day conference sponsored by the University of Birmingham, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
Keynote speaker
Nicholas Burbules, Gutgsell Professor of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Other speakers
- Danielle Diver
- Laura D’Olimpio
- Michael Hand
- Ben Kotzee
- Seunghyun Lee
- Martha Perez-Mugg
- Jeff Standley
- Nicolas Tanchuk
- Rebecca Taylor
- Ruth Wareham
Programme
| 9.30am |
Tea and Coffee |
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| 10am |
Welcome and introduction |
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| 10.15am |
Keynote lecture
The communicative dimensions of social epistemologies (Burbules)
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| 11.15am |
Session 1
- Should teachers promote vaccination? (Wareham)
- What’s wrong with wishful thinking? Manifesting as an epistemic vice (D’Olimpio)
- On the epistemic obligations of the educator (Standley)
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| 12.45pm |
Lunch |
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| 2pm |
Session 2
- Does indoctrination still matter? (Hand)
- Teaching open-mindedness in challenging classrooms (Lee)
- Philosophy in schools as a vehicle for open-mindedness (Diver)
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| 3.30pm |
Tea and coffee |
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| 4pm |
Session 3
- Assessing the epistemic trustworthiness of personalized AI tutors: a shared responsibility model (Tanchuk and Taylor)
- Instruction in the age of misinformation: pedagogical implications for educatingresponsible knowers (Perez-Mugg)
- The ethics of belief debate and the ethics of teaching (Kotzee)
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| 5.30pm |
Closing remarks |
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The conference is free of charge and includes lunch and refreshments, but online registration is essential.