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Educational Background
Megan Laverty earned her Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of New South Wales. She taught in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne before joining the Department of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University (MSU) as an Assistant Professor in 2000. In 2005, Megan Laverty joined the Philosophy and Education Program in the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College.
Scholarly Interests
Megan Laverty's primary research interests are philosophy of education, moral philosophy, and pre-college philosophy of education. Together with Maughn Rollins Gregory, she edits the Philosophy for Children Founders Series (Routledge). She is co-editor with Rene V. Arcilla of the series Philosophies of Education in Art, Cinema, and Literature (Bloomsbury).
Selected Publications
**Megan J. Laverty. The Wartime Quartet--Three Years On. Philosophical Investigations 48.4 (2025): 459-475.
**Evgenia Mylonaki and Megan J. Laverty. A Resolute Reading of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 33.3 (2025): 658-682.
**Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon and Megan Laverty. Introduction to Jean-Luc Nancy. Symposium: Jean-Luc Nancy and Education. Educational Theory 74.6 (2024): 840-848.
**Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty (eds.), Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher (Routledge, 2022).
**David T. Hansen and Megan J. Laverty (eds). A History of Western Philosophy of Education (Bloomsbury 2021).
**Jeff Frank and Megan Jane Laverty. Introduction: Considering Cora Diamond's significance for Philosophers of Education. Special Section. Ethics and Education 16.1 (2021): 1-19.
**Megan J. Laverty. Murdoch as Educator. In Nora Hamalainen and Gillian Dooley (eds.) Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Palgrave, 2019, 125-144.
**Megan J. Laverty. 'There is no Substitute for a Sense of Reality': Humanizing the Humanities. Educational Theory 6.6 (2015), 635-654.
**Megan J. Laverty. Learning our Concepts. Journal of Philosophy of Education 43.1 (2009), 27-40. The article was reprinted in Reading R.S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education. Stefan E. Cuypers and Christopher Martin (eds.). Wiley Blackwell, 2011, 24-37.
Honors and Awards
2024 Merritt Award for Distinguished Service to Philosophy of Education.
2022 Philosophy of Education Society Australasia (PESA) Book Award for Gareth Mathews, The Child's Philosopher (Routledge, 2022)
Academic Board Member, Aristotelian Logic Curriculum Project, Philosophy Department, Columbia University.
Doctoral Dissertations Sponsored
**Brandon Buck, "White Schools, White Ignorance: Toward a Racially Reponsive Pedagogy." Defended 2020.
**Jessica Davis, "On Whether Philosophy is Possible in Schools: A Reading of Jacques Ranciere." Defended 2019.
**John Fantuzzo, "Learning to Meet the 'Demands of the Day': Towards a Weberian Philosophy of Education." Defended 2016.
**Yoshiaki Nakazawa, "Plato's Myths in Philosophy and Education." Defended 2015.
**Patrick Comstock, "A Retrieval of Contemplation: Mindfulness and Meditation in Education." Defended 2015.
**Kiera Nieuwejaar, "Education as a Way of Living: The Educational Philosophy of Jane Addams." Defended 2014.
**Kazuaki Yoda, "Can Love be Taught? A Study of Simone Weil's Philosophy of Education." Defended 2014.