Paper posted!

The papers are up on the conference website -- you can see them here, if you'd like. It's called "Care and the Pedagogical Relationship: A Teleological Approach."

The abstract of my paper is:

The tension between discipline and care, fairness and nurturance, is central to issues in pedagogical philosophy. This dichotomy is echoed in psychology by the the justice/care distinction in moral thinking drawn by Gilligan (1982). Yet philosophical reactions to Gilligan’s work have varied dramatically. Even those who take seriously her claim that the so-called “care perspective” deserves attention in ethical theory often differ in their application of this idea, taking ‘caring’ as a principle of right action, as a virtue or character trait, or as constituting a new ethical theory entirely. This paper will expand upon the suggestion made by Little (1998) that the justice and care orientations represent different standpoints from which to do ethical theory rather than constituting ready-made theories themselves, arguing that a teleological understanding of the “normative essences” of certain relationships can incorporate some of Gilligan’s most crucial insights. The application of this idea to pedagogical ethics – one field in which the concept of ‘care’ has been taken quite seriously – will serve as a lens to focus attention on the benefits and potential flaws of such an approach.

Accommodation and other details still in the works... will keep you posted!