Ben Kotzee, MA, PhD

Lecturer

Contact details

Department of Social Policy and Education
Birkbeck, University of London
26 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DQ
email: b.kotzee@bbk.ac.uk
tel: 020 3073 8393

Employment history

Ben Kotzee joined Birkbeck in September 2008 from Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town.

Research

Ben researches topics in higher and professional education and philosophy of education. He also maintains research interests in epistemology and general philosophy. He is currently working on new conceptions of ‘expertise’ in professional education.

Publications

Paper publications

A thicker epistemology? (2008) (With J. Wanderer) Philosophical Papers 37 (3)
Our vision and our mission: Bullshit, assertion and belief (2007) South African Journal of Philosophy 26 (2)
Why metaphors have no meaning (2001) South African Journal of Philosophy 20 (1)

Reviews

Book Review: Improving Working as Learning, by Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin (forthcoming)

Edited Collections

Epistemology Through Thick and Thin: A special edition of Philosophical Papers (2008) (With J. Wanderer) Philosophical Papers 37 (3)

Other Publications

Why hobbits cannot exist (With J.P. Smit) (forthcoming)
But can they string a simple sentence together? (2008) BMAF Magazine 5
Cliff, A., Braun, M., Davies, N., Frith, V., Goolam, F., Page, B., Nel, P., Slater, C., McMillan, W., Iputo, J., Kotzee, B., 2006. Reasoning Test. Alternative Admissions Research Project, UCT.

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