• 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...

  

  12th November 2025

  What should educators do about bad beliefs? Neil Levy, Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney The Society is delighted to announce the PESGB 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...
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• 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...

  

  1st September 2025

  Poetics and paideia: the transmission of knowledge as production Catherine Pickstock, Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge Abstract Artificial Intelligence presents education with a...
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• 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...

  

  21st October 2025

  Sophie Grace Chappell, Professor of Philosophy, Open University Learning through epiphanies The Society is delighted to announce the PESGB 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series. To mark our...
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• 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...

  

  7th May 2025

  Elvis Imafidon, Reader in African Philosophy, SOAS Ubuntu philosophy, collaborative pedagogy and inclusive educational practices The Society is delighted to announce the PESGB 60th Anniversary...
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• 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...

  

  19th February 2025

  Daniel Weinstock, Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, McGill University Lotteries and educational equality Drinks reception: 6-7pm 7-8:30pm The Society is delighted to announce the...
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• Cambridge Branch Seminar

  

  11th February 2025

  Neo-Aristotelian insights on flourishing as the aim of education KRISTJAN KRISTJANSSON Abstract to follow. Poster available here.
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• Cambridge Branch Seminar

  

  26th November 2024

  ‘Selfless assertions’ in the classroom  BEN KOTZEE (University of Birmingham) According to normative views of assertion, assertion is a norm-governed practice. A number of possible norms for...
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• Cambridge Branch Seminar

  

  5th November 2024

  Classrooms as Cultural Playgrounds ROWENA AZADA-PALACIOS (Ateneo de Manila University) Both at home and abroad, recent headlines have cast a spotlight on the politics of national identity, posing a...
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• Strathclyde-Glasgow Branch Seminar

  

  13th November 2024

  The Inscrutable Design of Infant School Texts: Owen, Buchanan, Wilderspin & Swedenborg Dr. Sarah Odhner, Lecturer in Education, Bryn Athyn College A key historical question concerning infant...
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• Strathclyde - Glasgow Branch Conference

  

  25th November 2024

  CONFERENCE ON THE INTEGRATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the famous 'Turing Test.' He asserted that if people cannot distinguish whether they are...
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• London Branch Seminar

  

  11th December 2024

  Susanne Herrmann-Sinai (Oxford University) The first person in the acquisition of native and second language. Reflections with Hegel and Rousseau In this paper, I shall discuss Hegel’s...
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• London Branch Seminar

  

  4th December 2024

  Yuxin Su (UCL IOE) Positional goods reconsidered In modern economics, the concept of positional good is not exactly novel. Defined loosely, positional goods are goods whose absolute value to...
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