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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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“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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Take EPE 628, Ethics & Educational Decision Making, S’20
In the spring of 2020, I’ll be teaching Ethics and Educational Decision Making, EPE 628, with both face-to-face AND synchronously online sections! The class meets on Tuesday from 4-6:30pm. Consider signing up or tell your friends who might. [featured-image link=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EPE628-FB.jpg” link_single=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EPE628-FB.jpg” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Image of a road that forks, next to the text of the name…
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Talks in Spring 2019
I’m pleased to report on two exciting invitations I’ve had to speak in the spring of 2019. For one of them, the Ron Messerich Distinguished Lecture that I delivered in February, I spoke on “Correcting Political Correctness,” a piece from my book in progress titled A Culture of Justice. On Tuesday, February 26th, I gave…
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‘Ethics & Public Policy’ course in Fall ’18
For the Fall semester of 2018, I’m planning an upper level course here at the University of Kentucky in ‘Ethics and Public Policy,’ PHI 531, Section 1, which will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 – 4:45 pm. The course will begin with an examination of major moral traditions as well as ethical problems…
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End Corporal Punishment in Public Schools
On September 4th, The Herald Leader of Lexington, KY, published an in-depth news article on the subject of corporal punishment in public schools. It was still early in the school year, which makes such topics timely. I had written a draft to send them on the subject, but the news article offered many specifics to…
