Name:

Randall Curren

Education:

Ph.D. Pittsburgh

Position:

Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education.

Office:

532 Lattimore

Phone:

(585) 275-8112

Email:

rcurren@mail.rochester.edu

Specialties:

Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Education, History of Philosophy.

Listen to Randall Curren discuss sustainability with WXXI Radio host, Bob Smith, on on the "1370 Connection". [mp3 file; approximately about an hour; preceded by the news.]

Professor Curren’s Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

• Editor, Theory and Research in Education, an international, interdisciplinary journal, specializing in educational ethics, politics, and policy.
• "The Contribution of Nicomachean Ethics iii 5 to Aristotle's Theory of Responsibility," History of Philosophy Quarterly 6, no. 3 (July 1989), pp. 261-277
• "Punishment and Inclusion," The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 8, no. 2 (July 1995), pp. 259-274. Reprinted in Stephen Griffin and Robert Moffat, eds., Radical Critiques of the Law (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997), pp. 273-292.
• "Coercion and the Ethics of Grading and Testing," Educational Theory 45, no. 4 (Fall 1995), pp. 425-41. Reprinted in Paul Hirst and Patricia White, eds. Philosophy of Education: Major Themes in the Analytic Tradition, vol. 4 (London: Routledge, 1998) pp. 381-9. Reprinted in David Fenner, ed. Ethics in Education (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 199-221.
• "Education, History of Philosophy of," in E.. J. Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998), vol 3. pp. 222-31.
• "Cultivating the Intellectual and Moral Virtues," in David Carr and Jan Steutel, eds., Virtue Theory and Moral Education (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 67-81.
• "Moral Education and Juvenile Crime," in Stephen Macedo and Yale Tamir, eds. Nomos XLIII: Moral and Political Education (New York, NYU Press, 2002), pp. 359-80.
• "Developmental Liberalism," Educational Theory 56, no. 4 (Dec. 2006), pp. 451-68.
• "Academic Standards and Constitutive Luck," in Maureen Eckert and Robert Talisse, eds., A Teacher’s Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009), pp. 13-32.
• " Education as a Social Right in a Diverse Society," Journal of Philosophy of Education 43, no. 1 (Feb. 2009), pp. 45-56. Published in Spanish as, "La educación como un derecho social en una sociedad plural," in José Antonio Ibáñez-Martin, ed., Educación, conocimiento y justicia (Madrid: Dykinson, 2009), pp. 145-59.
• "Cardinal Virtues of Academic Administration," Theory and Research in Education 6(3) (Nov. 2008), pp. 337- 63. Reprinted in Elaine Englehardt, et al. (eds.), The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010), pp. 63-86.

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