Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Guest speaker video interviews — new location

Yahoo! Video has shut down, so all CEE videos are now hosted at YouTube.

Here are the speakers, topics, and new URLs. (Thanks to Chris Vaughan for performing the gargantuan task of transferring the material.)

Anil Singh-Molares on Microsoft and entrepreneurship.
Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur.
Emily Chamlee-Wright on non-profits and the recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
Steven Horwitz on Wal-Mart to the rescue after Hurricane Katrina.
David Mayer on Thomas Jefferson, Part I and Part II.
C. Bradley Thompson on John Adams, Part I and Part II.
Timothy Sandefur on market entrepreneurs, political entrepreneurs, and the Constitution, Part I and Part II.
David Mayer on Constitutional Interpretation, Part I and Part II.
C. Bradley Thompson on Neoconservatism, Part I and Part II.
Jerry Kirkpatrick on Philosophy’s Importance to Business, Part I and Part II.
Jerry Kirkpatrick on Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism.
Jerry Kirkpatrick in defense of advertising, Part I and Part II.
Joshua Hall on educational reform.

Here is the full list of my video interviews with guest speakers.

Philosophical Foundations of Education course

Here is the syllabus and schedule [pdf] for my graduate course this semester.

I’ll be doing a few experiments with the course this time. One is using my online lectures in Philosophy of Education as assignments for class preparation, along with reading from Howard Ozmon’s textbook. I’ll also be asking the students to read and write a critical review of Jerry Kirkpatrick’s Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism, a fine historically-informed survey of educational theory.

And in the second half of the semester I will be working with Marsha Familaro Enright, who will lead several Socratic discussions on key philosophers of education — including Plato, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Dewey, B. F. Skinner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, and Henry Giroux.

Kaizen 11 — The Judy Estrin interview

The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published the eleventh issue of Kaizen [pdf], featuring my interview with Judith Estrin. The interview’s theme is Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Judy Estrin, CEO of JLabs, is the co-founder of seven technology companies. She was the Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000 and has served on the boards of Rockwell and Sun Microsystems. Currently, she is on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company and FedEx. Most recently, she is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap (McGraw-Hill, 2008). I met with Ms. Estrin in Menlo Park, California to explore her thoughts on educating and managing for entrepreneurship and innovation.

The issue also features two recent guest speakers to Rockford College — Joshua Hall and Jerry Kirkpatrick — and congratulates three student prize winners: Erin Filak, Kristy Luck, and Elliott Welsh.

More Kaizen interviews with leading entrepreneurs are at my site here or at CEE’s site here.

In Defense of Advertising by Jerry Kirkpatrick

In the following video interview, I speak with Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, author of In Defense of Advertising, about the value of advertising, the common criticisms of it, and his responses to them. Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business and Marketing at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Part I:

Part II:

This video interview is also available at the CEE site. More of my interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

Kirkpatrick on Montessori and Dewey

Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick gave a talk at Rockford College on October 28 on “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers.” Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

In the following eleven-minute interview after his talk, I speak with Dr. Kirkpatrick about the two great educational philosophers of the twentieth century, both of whom are exerting great influence in the twenty-first.

The talk was also based on Dr. Kirpatrick’s fine book Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism. His talk at Rockford College was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and this video interview is also available here at the center’s site.

More of my interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

Jerry Kirkpatrick on philosophy’s importance to business

Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick gave a talk at Rockford College on October 27 on “The Importance of Philosophy to Business.” Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.

In the following two-part interview after his talk, I speak with Dr. Kirkpatrick about his education in philosophy and business and the relevance of moral philosophy and epistemology to practicing business professionals.

Part I:

Part II:

This interview is also available at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. More of my interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

Fall 2009 guest speakers

The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and the Department of Philosophy have an intellectually-stimulating line-up of guest speakers [pdf] this fall semester:

On September 16, Timothy Sandefur will be speaking on “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues.” Sandefur is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, California.

Jerry Kirkpatrick will be giving two talks: “The Importance of Philosophy to a Successful Business Career” on October 27 and “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers” on October 28. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business & Marketing at California State Polytechnic University

Joshua Hall will also be giving two talks on the theme of “The Dilemma of School Finance Reform,” one on October 13 and one on November 11. Hall is Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College and on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research.

For more details, please see the flyer [pdf]. Admission is free and open to the public.

My Philosophical Foundations of Education course

I’m teaching a graduate-level course on the Philosophical Foundations of Education (EDUC 605) this semester.

We cover several key philosophical issues that bear directly upon education, read the works of several philosophers — Plato, Locke, Kant, Dewey, and others — who have influenced education greatly, and we look at several systems of educational philosophy.

I’ve also invited three guest speakers this semester: Jerry Kirkpatrick, a philosopher of education and professor of business at Cal State Pomona, and Joshua Hall, an economist at Beloit College with expertise in the political economy of education, and Roberto Salinas León, a philosophy Ph.D. and President and CEO of the Mexico Business Forum, Mexico City. Professor Kirkpatrick will be at Rockford College on October 28 and Professor Hall’s and Dr. León’s dates are TBA.

Here are PDF file of the syllabus and schedule for the course and the supplemental 59-page booklet of readings:

Syllabus and Schedule [pdf]
Supplemental readings booklet: Philosophical Foundations of Education [pdf]
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