Megan Laverty is a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC). As a philosopher of education her research is in the area of moral philosophy with a focus on language, communication, civility and dialogue. Within this field of study, she focuses on the following philosophers: contemporary neo-Wittgensteinians that include Iris Murdoch and Cora Diamond; Aristotle; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant; the English and German Romantics from the 18th Century; and John Dewey from the 20th Century. Among her recent publications are Review of Gert Biesta's Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future in Studies in Philosophy and Education; Iris Murdoch's Ethics: A Consideration of her Romantic Vision (New York and London, 2007).
