Professor Ben Kotzee

Dr Ben Kotzee

School of Education
Professor of Philosophy of Education
Deputy Director (Training) Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Contact details

Email
h.b.kotzee@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Education
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Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Ben Kotzee is a Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University 麻豆精选. He works on topics in the philosophy of education and focuses on applying insights from contemporary epistemology to questions regarding intellectual development. He also has research interests in professional ethics and in professional education. Ben Kotzee is the editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education (SAGE). He holds a PhD in philosophy from King’s College London and was previously lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Philosophy) (London)
  • MA (Philosophy) (Stellenbosch)
  • Grad Cert (Social Research) (London)
  • BA Hons (Philosophy) (Stellenbosch)

Biography

Ben Kotzee studied philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa before completing his PhD in the same subject at King's College London, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.

Following his PhD he was National Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the department of philosophy at the University of Cape Town.

Before coming to Birmingham, Ben Kotzee was lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. 

Teaching

  • BA Education, Year 1: Philosophy of Education
  • MA: Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science

Postgraduate supervision

Ben is happy to accept PhD proposals in the fields of: 

  • philosophy of education
  • the epistemology of education
  • the intellectual virtues and critical thinking
  • ethics in education
  • professional education

Research

Ben Kotzee researches topics in the philosophy of education, with a specific focus on:

  • the epistemology of education
  • the nature of professional expertise

He holds the following grants:

As co-investigator: Phronesis and the Medical Community, Arts and Humanities Research Council (principal investigator Mervyn Conroy, HSMC)

As principal investigator: Moral Virtue, Intellectual Virtue and Education, The Spencer Foundation

Other activities

Ben Kotzee is secretary of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kotzee, B & Sato, K 2023, '', Journal of Philosophy of Education.

Kotzee, B 2023, '', Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 400-408.

Kotzee, B 2023, '', Professions & Professionalism, vol. 13, no. 2, e5346.

Matthews, A & Kotzee, B 2022, '', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 578-597.

Paton, A & Kotzee, B 2021, '', Health, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 417-433.

Matthews, A & Kotzee, B 2021, '', Educational Review, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 523-543.

Kotzee, B & Palermos, SO 2021, '', Educational Theory, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 497-518.

Matthews, A & Kotzee, B 2020, '', Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1186-1201.

Kotzee, B, Carter, JA & Siegel, H 2019, '', Episteme.

Kotzee, B 2019, '', Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 436-456.

Chapter

Kotzee, B & Baehr, J 2024, . in MD Matthews & RM Lerner (eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volume I. 1st edn, vol. 1, Routledge, pp. 512-532.

Kotzee, B 2023, . in The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education. Cambridge Handbooks in Education, Cambridge University Press, pp. 550 - 573.

Kotzee, B 2022, . in R Curren (ed.), Handbook of Philosophy of Education. 1 edn, Routledge. <>

Kotzee, B 2019, . in SG (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Assertion. Oxford University Press.

Kotzee, H 2018, . in D Coady & J Chase (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy , Routledge.