CMEI Colloquium
Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 14, 2017
Elite higher education functions both as a sorting people into elite positions, which are unjustly well-rewarded; and as a mechanism of social closure. It also exposes students to various risks (which are worth taking, given the rewards). Professors are privileged beneficiaries of injustice who are, furthermore, implicated in the injustices from which they benefit. Given these facts, Harry Brighouse asked (and answered): How should their jobs change in the light of these fact? And, assuming that large policy changes do not occur, how should individual professors behave differently?
Speaker Biography:
Harry Brighouse is Dickson Bascom Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies, and Director of the Center for Ethics and Education at UW Madison. With Michael McPherson he co-edited The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice (U of Chicago Press 2015) which won the 2017 Federic W Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges & Universities for the book that most advances out understanding of liberal education, and with Adam Swift he authored Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (Princeton University Press, 2014).
