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Thomas M. Falk, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Full-Time Faculty

School of Education and Health Sciences: Teacher Education

Contact

Email: Thomas Falk, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-229-1787
Raymond L. Fitz Hall, Room 680B
Curriculum Vitae: Read CV

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education, Ohio State University 
  • M.A. in Philosophy of Education, Ohio State University
  • B.A. in Spanish and Anthropology, Ohio State University

Professional Activities

  • Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society
  • Society for the Philosophical Study of Education

Research Interests

  • Cultural and Intellectual History
  • History of Ideas
  • Critical Theory
  • Comparative Education

Selected Publications

Thomas M. Falk, "Attending to Human Subjectivity in the Digital Age," Philosophical Studies in Education 55 (2024), 1-7.

Thomas M. Falk, "Anti-Authoritarian Education: A Phenomenological Perspective," Philosophical Studies in Education 54 (2023), 60-69.

Thomas M. Falk, "Psychedelic Phenomenology Primitive and Bourgeois: A Critical Response to Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence," Journal of Consciousness Studies 27 no. 1-2 (January/February 2020), 34-56.

Professional Affiliations

Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society

American Educational Research Association

Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Practice

Society for the Philosophical Study of Education

Service

Editor, Philosophical Studies in Education 55 (2023). 

Program Chair, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, 2023. 

Robert ‘Sonny’ Hill Community Center Expansion Committee, Middletown OH, 2021-Present. President, Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, 2018-2020.

University Hearing Board for Community Standards and Civility, University of Dayton, 2017- 2020.