Education and Society Project
Director: Dr Lisa Jones
Throughout its quarter century, the Centre has had a continuing interest in issues having to do with education, both formal, from schooling through to university, and informal.
It has hosted philosophers of education among its visiting fellows, arranged public lectures on education and values in St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Oxford and elsewhere, and co-sponsored conferences with philosophy of education societies.
It has also published essays and books on topic in education, such as Values, Education and the Human World (2004), The Institution of Intellectual Values (2005) and Liberalism, Education and Schooling (2008).
Against this background and as it proceeds in its second quarter century The Centre is now giving specific expression to this aspect of its activities by establishing the CEPPA Education and Society Project under the directorship of Dr Lisa Jones.
Lisa is Director of Teaching and Director of Schools Outreach for Philosophy at St Andrews. She came to St Andrews in September 2004 to take up a teaching fellowship in Aesthetics, after completing her PhD at Liverpool. She has continued to teach a variety of courses in Moral Philosophy, and became Senior Teaching Fellow in 2008. Her doctoral thesis was a study of the cognitive value of fictional narrative art, and her continuing research interests include issues at the intersection between philosophy and literature.