CFP: Philosophy of Education and AI: A Future Humanities Special Issue
Submission deadline: December 15, 2024
Details
The release of generative AI technologies has rapidly raised serious pedagogical and philosophical questions for educators and students alike. Many academic institutions have attempted to offer guidance on integrating AI into teaching and learning practices, often seeking to position themselves as techno-optimists at forefront of a transformative technology. Moreover, the World Economic Forum and UNESCO, for example, have published international frameworks and analysis on uses of AI in educational contexts, highlighting both the radical potential for AI to democratise access to learning opportunities but also a risk of polarising pre-existing inequalities and marginalisation.
This call for papers responds to calls for a "robust philosophy" to interpret various dynamics at work in AI deployed in education (Samuel et al. 2023) and other recent work that turns to philosophy in this context (Buckner 2024). Interested contributors are invited to engage in rigorous and sustained philosophical analysis of this development, drawing from a range of theoretical traditions to interpret and interrogate its implications.
Papers may seek to address AI and education in relation to the following topics and more:
- Philosophical analysis of learning;
- Habits, norms, and routines;
- Surveillance, data capitalism, and intersectional analysis;
- Environmental critiques of AI infrastructure;
- Perception, memory, imagination, creativity, and attention.
If you are interested in contributing an article for the special issue then please submit a 300-word abstract to [email protected] by 15th December 2024. If your abstract is accepted, you will be invited to work up your ideas into an academic article of 5000-6000 words. Publication of completed articles will be subject to the outcome of the Future Humanities peer-review process.
Indicative timeline:
- Submission of abstracts (December 2024)
- Notification of abstract acceptance (January 2025)
- Submission of completed articles (August 2025)
- Publication of accepted peer-reviewed articles (August 2026)
(Please also note the journal policy on Open Access publishing and contact the editors if you have any concerns about Article Processing Charges).