Visiting the UK for the PESGB Annual Conference in Oxford next month? Why not stay on for an extra couple of days and come along to Educating Responsible Believers, a one-day PESGB branch conference at the University of Birmingham? It’s completely free and features presentations on themes of enduring interest in our field – open-mindedness, indoctrination, the ethics of belief – and on emerging challenges for educators – social media misinformation, AI tutors, the ethics of COVID-19 vaccination. All PESGB members are warmly invited to attend.

Educating Responsible Believers

A one-day conference at the University of Birmingham

Keynote speaker
Nicholas Burbules, Gutgsell Professor of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Programme

9.30am Tea and coffee
10am Welcome and introduction
10.15am Keynote lecture
The communicative dimensions of social epistemologies (Nicholas Burbules)
11.15am Session 1
Should teachers promote vaccination? (Ruth Wareham)
What’s wrong with wishful thinking? Manifesting as an epistemic vice (Laura D’Olimpio)
On the epistemic obligations of the educator (Jeff Standley)
12.45pm Lunch
2pm Session 2
Does indoctrination still matter? (Michael Hand)
Teaching open-mindedness in challenging classrooms (Seunghyun Lee)
Philosophy in schools as a vehicle for open-mindedness (Danielle Diver)
3.30pm Tea and coffee
4pm Session 3
Assessing the epistemic trustworthiness of personalized AI tutors: a shared responsibility model (Nicolas Tanchuk and Rebecca Taylor)
Instruction in the age of misinformation: pedagogical implications for educating responsible knowers (Martha Perez-Mugg)
The ethics of belief debate and the ethics of teaching (Ben Kotzee)
5.30pm Closing remarks

The conference is free of charge and includes lunch and refreshments, but registration is essential.

Register online at www.birmingham.ac.uk/educating-responsible-believers.