childhood & philosophy  

walter omar kohan,david knowles kennedy

Childhood and philosophy is a journal which has been waiting to be born at least since Socrates sat down in the unique (at least for us) shelter of the 5th century bc polis and founded a discipline. The journal’s conception lies much, much later, in the f... see more

darryl matthew de marzio

In this paper I provide an introduction to the special issue on the Philosophical Novel for Children by pointing to a lacuna in the theoretical field of philosophy for/with children (P4/WC), suggesting that the field is in need of more research on the phi... see more

wendy c turgeon

Recently fiction has been given a central role in the engagement in philosophical thinking, especially within an educational setting. We find many configurations of this intersection of the narrative and the philosophical and the variances among them need... see more

philip cam

Given the obvious differences between telling a story and setting out a philosophical theory or a carefully reasoned argument, the philosophical narrative is, on the face of it, an unlikely genre. It is rendered even more problematic when we come to the p... see more

anna maria carpentieri

The paper is about the connotations of the philosophical novel. It explores the question of whether and how the philosophical novel can become functional model for philosophical praxis. I argue that the philosophical novel is a tool for activating a relat... see more

beth dixon

In this paper I explore what the P4C philosophical novel can contribute to deciding how we should use ethical rules in moral education. As I see it the philosophical novel urges us to regard ethical rule-following with some suspicion. Instead we are direc... see more

stefano oliverio

Starting from two passages of the autobiography of Lipman, which represent the description of a sort of ‘primary scene’ of P4C, the presented paper shows how the Deweyan notion of qualitative thought is pivotal for the entire Lipmanian undertaking. Dewey’... see more

peter raymond costello

Russell Hoban’s famous children’s novel, The Mouse and His Child, centers around a child’s quest for family, community, and self-awareness. This paper works to describe the novel as philosophical insofar as the novel takes up themes and elements of Mauri... see more

anne-claude hess

With the prospect of helping pupils to build up both a citizen identity and an better autonomy of thinking, the Research Unit in “Philosophy for Children and Teenagers” (PPEA) of the HEP Fribourg (Switzerland) offers a method to conduct a philosophical di... see more

arie kizel

A philosophy with children community of inquiry encourage children to develop a philosophical sensitivity that entails awareness of abstract questions related to human existence. When it operates, it can allow insight into significant philosophical aspect... see more

maximiliano duran

This paper proposes the concept of childhood thinking proposed by Walter Kohan as a condition of possibility for the creation of a concept different from traditional school. According with our point of view the philosophical idea of childhood proposed for... see more