Randall Curren joined the University’s faculty in 1988. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and holds a secondary professorship in the Warner School’s educational leadership program. Curren works with doctoral students in the leadership, thought, and policy program and teaches courses in philosophy of education and ethics and educational leadership.

Curren is a former Mellon Fellow, Newcombe Fellow, Spencer Fellow, and Andrew Mellon Instructor in Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Spencer Foundation. He is a past president of the Association for Philosophy of Education, has served on the Ethics Committee of the AERA, and chairs the American Philosophical Association Committee on Teaching.

He has published numerous chapters in books, journal articles, reviews, notes, and encyclopedia entries. He is the author of Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), widely regarded as a rich and important contribution to the fields of political theory, Aristotelian scholarship, and philosophy of education.

Curren is the editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Education (Blackwell, Ltd., 2003; 2006; 2007 in Chinese), the field’s leading reference work, and editor of Philosophy of Education: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007), described as “a major contribution to philosophy of education.” He is also the co-editor of Theory and Research in Education (Sage), a journal of educational philosophy and theory.