NAAPE 2024 Conference Program

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Friday, October 25th

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM


12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Pre-Conference Workshop for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars | Room 105
Pre-Conference Panel I: Navigating the Academic and Non-Academic Job Markets
Moderator: Kirsten Welch

Lunch & Meet-and-Greet | Room 105

Pre-Conference Panel II: Publishing in Philosophy, Education, and Beyond
Moderator: Kirsten Welch

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
Gina Schouten | The Philosopher vs. The Activist? Reflective Equilibrium as a Method for Learning about Justice
Respondent: Quentin Wheeler-Bell

Moderator: Dustin Webster

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Champagne Reception | Dining Room

5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
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Concurrent Session I
Paper Session A
Clinton Castro and Timothy Aylsworth | Should I Use ChatGPT to Write My Papers?
Nicolas Tanchuk and Rebecca M. Taylor | Assessing and Advancing the Epistemic Trustworthiness of AI Tutors in Personalized Learning: A Shared Responsibility Model
Xiaochen Zhao | Cyclical Worldliness in Machines: Dreyfus, Heidegger, and a Phenomenological Reformulation of AI Critique in the Context of Educational Philosophy
Moderator: Afton Greco

Paper Session B
Anastasia Gavrilos | On External Goods and Moral Development: Virtue and Friendship in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
Mark Jonas | Plato on Rhetoric, Writing, and Moral Education
Mason Marshall | Philosophy of Education and the History of Philosophy
Moderator: Matthew Farrelly

Paper Session C
Henri Huttunen | Education for Deliberative Democracy Through the Long-Term View
Filiz Oskay | Marcuse, Capitalism, and the One-Dimensional Student (co-authored with W. Walker Ballard)
Lucia Lucena | Philosophical Inquiry into Student Agency: Political Dimensions and Implications
Moderator: Jamie Herman

Author-Meets-Critics: Sarah Stitzlein, Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens (Oxford University Press)
Paula McAvoy, Jacob del Dotto, Dave Adams, Joy Dangora Erickson
Moderator: Megan Bogia

Panel The Ethics of Educational Resources in the Digital Age
Emma Prendergast, Camila Flowerman, Lindsey Schwartz
Moderator: Darby Vickers

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Conference Dinner | Dining Room

8:30 PM

Beer and Wine Social | Dining Room

Saturday, October 26th

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast | Dining Room

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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South Residence Living Room

Concurrent Session II
Paper Session A

David Bakhurst | Siegel on Felt Reasons, Dostoevsky, and The Karamazov Brothers
Michael Quinn | Learning Andy Clark & David Chalmers’ “The Extended Mind” through Christopher Nolan’s Memento
Sam Piede | “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”: Difficulty as Aesthetic and its Pedagogical Implications
Moderator: Aaron Yarmel

Paper Session B
Martha Perez-Mugg | Take the Mask Off? Autistic Masking as a Response to Epistemic Injustice
Ashley Taylor and Kevin McDonough | Moral Status, Epistemic Agency, and the Education of Students Labelled with Intellectual Disability
Rayan Magon | Do Gifted Abilities Lead to Creativity? Exploring Talent Development Through the Mediating Role of Awe and Curiosity
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Paper Session C
Allison Stevens | A Conversation of Patriotism: Learning from Oakeshott to Enrich an American Civic Virtue
Lauren Links | Pedagogical Humility & Civic Generosity
Ka Ya Lee | Whither Universal or Targeted Pre-K?: An Ethical Assessment
Moderator: Ellis Reid

Author-Meets-Critics | Anthony Laden, Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do About Them (University of Chicago Press)
Gina Schouten, Afton Greco, Jamie Herman
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Panel | Poetics, Place, and Education in an Age of Disenchantment: Engaging with Charles Taylor’s Cosmic Connections
Matthew Farrelly, Calvin Woodring, Kevin Kristensen, Batuhan Aydagul
Moderator: Mark Jonas

Panel | The Conditions for Virtue Education and Development
Dustin Webster, Ksenia Filatov, Nate Smith, James Schofield
Moderator: Dustin Webster

Roundtable Sessions (Works-in-Progress)
Mary Zahner and Anne Krach | The Timeline of CEMREL’s Aesthetic Education Program
Discussant: Chris Moffett

11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
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South Residence Living Room

Concurrent Session III
Paper Session A
Darius Weil | Parenting is Not Rescuing: A Critique of the Best Available Parent View
Libby Southgate | Risk and Legitimate Parental Partiality
Benjamin Yost | Defining Parental Punishment
Moderator: Nate Smith

Paper Session B
Afton Greco | Does Higher Education Belong in the Basic Structure? Political Liberalism and the Institutionalization of Distributive Justice
Megan Bogia | Distribution Double Bind: On the Ethical Implications of “How”
Dustin Webster | Case-Based Reasoning in Educational Ethics: Phronēsis and Epistemic Blinders (Co-authored with Michael Vazquez)
Moderator: Tammy Harel Ben Sharhar

Panel | On Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of an Open Future
Elias Hage, Chiara Berra, and Samuel Sadler
Moderator: Nicholas Smith

Panel | Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics: "Civic Contestation in Global Education" & "Educational Equity in a Global Context"
Ellis Reid, Winston Thompson, Nicolas Tanchuk, Drew Chambers
Moderator: Thomas Falk

Panel | A Symposium on The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education
G
onzalo Obeillero, Jason Goulah, Jim Garrison
Moderator: Gonzalo Obeillero

Panel | Classical and Liberal Arts Education: Moving the Canon Forward
Rena Alcalay, Doug Keaton, Kirsten Welch, Rob Jackson
Moderator: Sam Piede

Roundtable Sessions (Works-in-Progress)
Jamie Herman | Are Higher Education Institutions Legitimate?
Discussant: Harry Brighouse

Marie Laplante-Anfossi | Why Should Higher Education Institutions Care About Dissemination?
Discussant: Aaron Yarmel

Darren Corpe | Primary Goods, Children, and the Injustice of Boredom
Discussant: Philip Cook

SunInn Yun | A Postcolonial Struggle in Education: What It Means to Raise a Child into a Korean
Discussant: Ka Ya Lee

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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Lunch | Dining Room

Concurrent Session IV
Paper Session A

Jensen Okimoto | Beyond the Self: Rousseau's Anthropology and the Challenge of Relationality
Aaron Yarmel | Social Roles and Meaningful Lives
Philip Cook | Common Schools for Common Equals: On the Goods of Common Schooling
Moderator: Benjamin Yost

Paper Session B

Pedro Tabensky | A Pedagogy of Being: Humanising Learning Environments in the South African Tertiary Sector
Thomas Falk | Breaking the Will: The Indigenous Critique and the Dialectic of Freedom and Authoritarianism in Education
Vikramaditya (Vik) Joshi | Moving from the Language of Threat to a Discourse of Belonging: Reimagining Terms in the Field of Violence Prevention
Moderator: Allison Stevens

Paper Session C
Harry Brighouse | Measuring the Effects of a Liberal Arts Education: Conceptual and Normative Issues
Tammy Harel Ben Shahar | Educational Justice and the Value of Excellence
Ikeoluwapo Baruwa | In Defense of Intellectual Virtues in Higher Education
Moderator: Ka Ya Lee

Panel | "Other-Assisted" Pedagogies
Ilya Zrudlo, Eric Farr, Matthew Farrelly, Caity Bolton
Moderator: Ksenia Filatov

Panel
| Educating for the Pursuit of Wisdom through Disputed Questions
Kirsten Welch, Todd Buras, Carl Sohmer, Verónica Gutiérrez
Moderator: Kirsten Welch

Roundtable Sessions (Works-in-Progress)
Michael MacKay | Against Teaching Belief in World Religions
Discussant: Libby Southgate

David O'Brien | How To Be a Luck Egalitarian About Educational Justice in Non-Ideal Conditions
Discussant: Nicholas Burbules

Arham Kazi | Distilling the Beer Commercial through Art Education
Discussant: Mason Marshall

3:30 PM - 5:15 PM

Free Time

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
Nancy Snow | Promoting Civility and Respect in Higher Education and Beyond
Respondent: Anthony Laden

Moderator: Warren von Eschenbach

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Conference Dinner | Dining Room

8:30 PM

Beer and Wine Social | Dining Room

Sunday, October 27th

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast | Dining Room

9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session V
Paper Session A
Darby Vickers and Nicholas Smith | The Virtuous Technologist: What kind of exemplars do we need to train the character of the next generation of technologists?
Chris Moffett | Playing with Fire: Rethinking Play and Technology in Education
Evan Dutmer | Cultivation of Character for Ethical Leadership: The Transformative Aim of the Department of Leadership Education at Culver Academies
Moderator: David Bakhurst

Panel | Reflections on Purposes of Higher Education
Harry Brighouse, Stephanie Hoffmann, Libby Southgate, Emma Prendergast, Afton Greco, David O'Brien, Teresa Nelson, Daisy Jagoditsh
Moderator: Darius Weil

Panel A Symposium on American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation: What Should Schools Do?
Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Seth Radwell, Amy Sojot, Nicholas C. Burbules, Kevin Harrelson
Moderator: Filiz Oskay

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Free Time

Lunch & Closing Convocation | Dining Hall

1:30 PM

Airport Shuttle Departs | Parking Lot