Revisited: “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion”

In this invited essay for the 75 th Anniversary Special Issue of Educational Theory , I revisit my 2008 article “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion.” I briefly summarize my argument, then survey the various objections it has attracted in the years since its publication. I focus in on a criticism I call the value worry about the epistemic criterion and try to show that it is unsuccessful.