Campbell F. Scribner

1/ Worth reading this new article from @educationaltheory.bsky.social , though (if I understand the author’s argument) I had mixed reactions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

2/ I was sympathetic with (and grateful for) several of the conclusions, particularly around the need to recognize the complexities of moralizing higher claims in higher education, and the shortcomings of proceduralism and policy.

1/ Worth reading this new article from @educationaltheory.bsky.social , though (if I understand the author’s argument) I had mixed reactions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

5/ Anyway, check it out! Always worth thinking about the role of moral disagreement and value pluralism in higher education!

1/ Worth reading this new article from @educationaltheory.bsky.social , though (if I understand the author’s argument) I had mixed reactions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

3/ But disappointed by an apparent reduction of all DEI opposition to “backlash,” not crediting int critiques, which seem bound to be overlooked; and (2) the fallback to proceduarlism (rather than cultural change) to handle moral disagreement, which I see as a vain hope.

1/ Nothing I’ve written has received as much bafflement & outright discouragement from peers as this article, which is a shame because I think it’s also the best thing I’ve written (?). A 🧵. umd.box.com/s/b66cfy7qvq... #history #education #philosophy

7/ To make this point, Ryen Burris and I use Hannah Arendt’s concept of “natality” and children as the source of radically new perspectives. We open with a Wordsworth quote, but one could also think of Emerson and “childhood as the perpetual messiah.”

1/ Nothing I’ve written has received as much bafflement & outright discouragement from peers as this article, which is a shame because I think it’s also the best thing I’ve written (?). A 🧵. umd.box.com/s/b66cfy7qvq... #history #education #philosophy

5/ Philosophers of science might be interested, insofar as Phenix went on to graduate from Princeton, and Einstein, Weyl, and Howard Robertson all make cameos…

1/ Nothing I’ve written has received as much bafflement & outright discouragement from peers as this article, which is a shame because I think it’s also the best thing I’ve written (?). A 🧵. umd.box.com/s/b66cfy7qvq... #history #education #philosophy

3/ The article is about a philosopher named Philip H. Phenix, the subject of my current book project, who seems to have arrived at his philosophical worldview by the age of fourteen (!), by way of neo-Kantian physics and metaphysics.

1/ Nothing I’ve written has received as much bafflement & outright discouragement from peers as this article, which is a shame because I think it’s also the best thing I’ve written (?). A 🧵. umd.box.com/s/b66cfy7qvq... #history #education #philosophy