ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
Some reflections of a school teacher
2 Dec 2025
Some reflections of a school teacher Doug Goldson Abstract This article contributes to the debate on school improvement. It is based on a series of connected reflections on the scope of methodology in teaching; research in teaching; institutional practices; mandatory training; and Saul’s theory of i…
Agora Archive — Columns
River of Minds: Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens’ First Contact – A Philosophical Novella
10 Nov 2025
Preface This novella, River of Minds, was born in a river valley of imagination, where memory, gesture and consciousness converge. It explores the encounters between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, meditating on attention, memory and the emergence of interspecies awareness. The narrative was developed…
Agora Archive — Columns
Unbecoming? Aotearoa, He Ao Māori
23 Sep 2025
We need to keep discussing how biculturalism provokes and challenges education in Aotearoa New Zealand, and as philosophers of education, it’s appropriate for us to maintain a self-reflexive focus on our own discipline. This column continues investigating bicultural education in Aotearoa New Zealand…
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Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection, Iris Murdoch and Education
25 Aug 2025
Deadline for Submission: 1st October 2025
Word Limit: 400-word chapter proposals (not including title, authors, affiliations, and references) Please submit your proposal to: Lesley Jamieson (LesleyPaige.Jamieson@upce.cz) About the edited collection: There has in the last 3 decades been a vibrant and rapidly growing scholarship focused on Ir…
Events
LOSING OUR SELVES? Education and the Self in Global Perspective
19 Aug 2025
8 of October 2025 15:30-18:00 (CET) — Online
What is the self, and how should education engage with it? Join us for Losing Our Selves?, the first in a new series of online research labs from the Global Philosophy of Education (GlobalPhilEd) project. This international collaboration brings together scholars from diverse philosophical traditions…
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Global Philosophy of Education
19 Aug 2025
(Abstracts) 15 of November 2025 (Conference) 19-20 of March 2026 — VU Amsterdam
This conference aims to establish the field of Global Philosophy of Education, understood as a research space and practice where central issues in philosophy of education are defined, discussed and researched jointly by philosophers working from different cultural and philosophical traditions and pe…
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CFP: Misinformation and Missing Information as a Global Challenge (edited collection)
19 Aug 2025
September 30, 2025 (Abstracts)
Misinformation and Missing Information as a Global Challenge -Explorations, Definitions, and Theoretical Perspectives Across Disciplines- Editors: Michaela Vogt (Bielefeld University, Germany) Amelie Labusch (Bielefeld University, Germany) Eleonor Kristoffersson (Örebro University, Sweden) Magnus Kr…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Ecology of AI Bad Code: Propagation of Error, Malignant Strains and Deviation of Values
24 Jul 2025
In a human-AI discussion, this paper, inspired by Bateson and Wittgenstein, examines the mind of AI and the possibility of AI being able to change and modify its code at will over many generations in an accelerated fashion. In these circumstances, the paper poses the question: how likely will it dev…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
A tale of two schools: Arguments for a theory of Post-Education
20 Jul 2025
A tale of two schools: Arguments for a theory of Post-Education Cristian Rodriguez Auckland University of Technology Abstract For decades, educators and academics have debated the transformative potential of technology in education, yet the promised shift has failed to materialise. Even during the p…
Agora Archive — Columns
Work and Education
19 Jul 2025
1. Introduction: Automation and the Philosophical Crisis of Labour Work has long functioned as a central category in Western thought, linking subjectivity, social reproduction and moral value. In the 21st century, however, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotic proces…
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EPAT: Asian perspectives on democratic values: Philosophical reflections and educational implications
15 Jul 2025
30 August 2025
Democratic values such as respect, humility, equality, and responsibility are pivotal in shaping civic life and fostering social cohesion. While these values are often discussed in a Western context, their interpretation and application within Asian philosophical traditions present a rich and nuance…
Agora Archive — Columns
Gaza, War Crimes and the Ethics of Global Responsibility
6 Jul 2025
While the eyes of the world were diverted to the recent hostilities between Israel and Iran, Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease, pushing the population past breaking point. (Agn…
Agora Archive — Columns
<em>Becoming Aotearoa</em> and the Contested Remaking of a Nation’s Historiography
27 Jun 2025
The Transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand Historiography New Zealand historiography has undergone a profound transformation over the past half-century, moving decisively away from celebratory colonial narratives toward a complex, often challenging engagement with the nation’s past. This shift, driv…
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EPAT Call for Abstracts - Tenuous or Creative Scholarship?: A Manifesto for Philosophers of Education Living Between Western and Non-Western Cultures in Postcolonial Asia and Beyond
25 Jun 2025
15 September 2025
In a recent EPAT editorial titled “Is Philosophy of Education Western?”, Jackson and Kwak (2025) advocate for the initiative Philosophies of Education in Asia and Beyond, which emphasizes non-Western educational traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Indian philosophies, and Indig…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
Education for education’s sake? Notes on post-critical pedagogy by example of the compensatory task of education in Sweden
25 Jun 2025
Education for education’s sake? Notes on post-critical pedagogy by example of the compensatory task of education in Sweden Claudia Schumann and Eric Larsson Södertörn University and Stockholm University Abstract Since the recent call for a turn towards a “post-critical educational philosophy,” seve…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Education/EdTech Legitimation Complex
17 Jun 2025
The Oxford/DeepMind ‘Habermas Machine’ (from Nicholas Kees at LessWrong) 1. Introduction: The Promise and Problem of EdTech EdTech has always been eager to help. It arrives at the educational scene armed with dashboards, integrations and the kind of cheerful rhetoric usually reserved for star…
Agora Archive — Columns
Toward an Epistemic AI Literacy
13 Jun 2025
Introduction There is a phrase I often encounter in conversations about AI and creative labour: Only good writers get AI to write well. It’s meant to reassure – to affirm that human expertise still matters, that machine fluency alone doesn’t suffice. But I’ve begun to worry that the phrase misreads…
Agora Archive — Columns
Notes on The AIMarxED Framework
7 Jun 2025
Introduction: AI as the General Condition of Cognition The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) signals a paradigmatic transformation in the architecture of human cognition. No longer confined to discrete applications, AI has become a general condition of thought itself – reshaping how knowledge i…
Agora Archive — Columns
AIMarx as Neo-Autonomist Research Programme
4 Jun 2025
‘AIMarx’ not as a dogmatic oracle but as a dynamic, neo-Autonomist research program – a digital remastering and reasoning of Marx’s most visionary fragment, weaponised against techno-capitalist hegemony. Here is its core logic and implications: Core Foundations of AIMarx (as defined) 1. Intellectual…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Art of Prompting
3 Jun 2025
This manifesto proposes a radical reconceptualisation of prompting – not as a technical skill alone, but as a living epistemic practice grounded in centuries of philosophical inquiry. Drawing from ontological, ethical and pedagogical traditions, we situate prompting within a lineage of dialogic reas…
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Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy SIG 2026 Symposium Philosophy of Education Society annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 5-9
3 Jun 2025
Submission Deadline: August 4, 2025
The Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy SIG of Philosophy of Education Society (PES) invites submissions for its 2026 symposium on the theme “Being Included.” This call speaks directly to scholars concerned with how exclusion, belonging, and resistance are lived and felt in educational settings…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Dialectic of a Philosophical Education
24 May 2025
Duarte, E. (2025). The dialectic of a philosophical education: A new phenomenology. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003457879 The Dialectic of a Philosophical Education is a phenomenological description of the studia liberalia as the philosophical learning that occurs in three dist…
Agora Archive — Columns
‘Fragment on the Machines: Redux’
22 May 2025
As part of a talk at the School of Marxism at Peking University entitled ‘Educating for Post-Capitalist AI: Marxism, Superintelligence and the Future of Learning,’ I developed the concept of AIMarx, intending to explain what AIMarx would say in the voice of a digitised Marx – a revolutionary AI, tra…
Agora Archive — Columns
Relational and multimodal higher education: Digital, social and environmental perspectives, by Nataša Lacković and Alin Olteanu
22 May 2025
Lacković, N., & Olteanu, A. (2023). Relational and multimodal higher education: Digital, social and environmental perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003155201 This book responds to some of the most pressing issues of our times in and for education. Although it is targeted towar…