Corrupting Education: Virtue and Vice Epistemology and Higher Education

OSS conference room, University of Sheffield
Organisers: Ian James Kidd and Josh Forstenzer.

Contemporary educational discourse is filled with a rhetoric of corruption - of teachers, of curricula, of the mission of liberal education, and so on. This workshop seeks to explain and explore this rhetoric of corruption by drawing on virtue and vice epistemology. We will think about both the corruption of education, and the corrupting effects of education.

Program:

• 0930 coffee and welcome
• 10 'Epistemic Virtue and Vice in the University Classroom'
  • Heather Battaly
  • Chair: Ian James Kidd
• 11.15 coffee
• 11.45 'Epistemic Injustice and Education'
  • Ben Kotzee
  • Chair: Stephen Ingram
• 1 lunch
• 2.30 'Epistemic Corruption and Education: A Vice-Epistemological Account'
  • Ian James Kidd
  • Chair: Josh Forstenzer
• 3.45 coffee
• 4.15 'Something Will Crack: Post-Truth Politics and Civic Higher Education - From Rorty to Dewey'
  • Joshua Forstenzer
  • Chair: TBC
• 5.30 end