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KY’s Potential for Leadership in Educational Ethics: Calling for an End to Corporal Punishment in American Schools
In the spring of 2023, the Ethics and Social Justice Center at Bellarmine University issued a call for proposals for their yearly Commonwealth Ethics Lecture. They invited scholars from around the state to propose a talk to be delivered for their 2023 lecture, considering approaches from all disciplines and with special interest in interdisciplinary dialogue…
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[VIDEO]: YOU Should Join my ‘Philosophy of Education’ (EPE525/640) Course Next Fall!
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates at the University of Kentucky, watch this VIDEO (4m29s) about why you should take my EPE 525 / 640 course in the fall of of this year on the Philosophy of Education. The EPE 525 course is the undergraduate version of the EPE 640 class, which is for graduate students,…
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Research Trajectories, Big & Small
Today I led the department of Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation‘s Lunch & Connect meeting on Zoom, focusing on the topic: “Research Trajectories: From Idea to Presentation, to Journal Article, to Book.” I had intended to record the meeting, but due to some of the complication of starting a zoom meeting, making sure people had…
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[VIDEO]: You Should Study the ‘Philosophy of Education’ (EPE525/640) in Fall 2020
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates at the University of Kentucky, watch this VIDEO (4m29s) about why you should take my EPE 525 / 640 course in the fall of 2020 on the Philosophy of Education. The EPE 525 course is the undergraduate version of the EPE 640 class, which is for graduate students, and both…
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“The Pragmatist’s Call to Democratic Activism in Higher Education” is now out
I’m excited to announce that my latest paper has been published in the journal, Essays in Philosophy, volume 21, issue 1/2, in 2020. If you want to read the paper, you can click on the image below or click here. [featured-image link=”https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045&pdfname=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045.pdf&file_type=pdf” link_single=”https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045&pdfname=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045.pdf&file_type=pdf” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Image of the top of my paper, ‘The Pragmatist’s Call to Democratic…
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Democracy | Education | Leadership | Releases | Video
[VIDEO]: Why You Should Take my Philosophy of Education Course this Fall
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates at the University of Kentucky, watch this VIDEO (4m29s) about why you should take my EPE 640 course this fall on the Philosophy of Education. [youtube id=”PHIKvuteoHM”] Advanced undergraduates, if you’d like to take this course, email the instructor at eric.t.weber@uky.edu. Why study the Philosophy of Education? a) Educators…
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Articles | Culture | Democracy | Leadership | Talks
Talking Leadership with Grad Students
Today I had the honor of having been invited to speak at the University of Kentucky’s Graduate Student Leadership Conference. My talk was called “Democracy and Leadership in Higher Education: A Talk for Graduate Students.” I seconded some of the prior speaker’s remarks, which concerned the value of networking, including online and via social media….
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Great Review of ‘Democracy and Leadership’
Dr. Tadd Ruetenik of St. Ambrose University published a review of my 2013 book, Democracy and Leadership, in the second 2016 issue of The Pluralist. I subscribe to the journal, but since I moved last June, I have not yet received the issue. I still have some address information to update for a number of subscriptions and such,…
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Better Late Than Never: Recent Review of my 2010 Book
The pace of academic work can sometimes seem tectonic. There’s a reason scholars tend to have a hard time appreciating what news editors mean by “timely.” For a philosopher, an argument about Plato that was published after the year 2000 is downright recent. Keeping that in mind, I’m pleased to share with you the book review…
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Culture | Democracy | Leadership | Talks | Video
Video: “Poverty, Culture, and Justice,” @ Purdue U
I’ve posted a number of recordings of interviews and talks I’ve given on Uniting Mississippi. This talk is on my next project, which is still in progress. The book is titled A Culture of Justice. One of the chapters that is in progress is the subject of the talk I gave at Purdue University. Here’s the video,…
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“Justice as an Evolving Regulative Ideal”
[featured-image link=”http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2015/10%20Weber.pdf” link_single=”http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2015/10%20Weber.pdf” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Photo of the top of my paper, which links to the PDF file on the journal’s Web site.”] I’m happy to announced that my latest paper, as of December 2015, has been published in Pragmatism Today, the peer-reviewed journal of the Central-European Pragmatist Forum. This paper is a step in the larger project…
