childhood & philosophy  

david knowles kennedy,walter omar kohan

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

andrew divers

That we treat children differently from adults is clear. The attitude of increased paternalistic standards can be seen in a number of cases – be it the rights which children have in terms of medical treatment, decisions about their lives which are left up... see more

claudio almir dalbosco

The first part of this essay reconstructs the concept of childhood discontinuity as an ontological condition of human existence, following the definition developed by Walter Kohan, in his book Infância. Entre educação e Filosofia. The text briefly shows t... see more

michel sasseville

In his last theoretical book published in 2003, Thinking in Education, Matthew Lipman stated that within the Philosophy for Children (P4C) program, we need a theory of thinking, because without it the work that awaits its practitioners and those who focus... see more

leoni maria padilha henning,andressa coelho righi de carvalho

This paper presents some reflections on the anthropological perspectives of Paulo Freire and John Dewey and their theoretical development, especially with regard to childhood. Taking the first author as a reader of the second, I focus on two fundamental n... see more

rita ribes pereira

The goal of this paper is to discuss the relations between childhood and a contemporary world that has added a virtual dimension to culture. I argue that the social space that children occupy in the cyberculture has become a contradictory one: on one hand... see more

felix garcia moriyon

In order to theorize about the nature and scope of the philosophical reflection, philosophers have used a wide array of metaphors and analogies, from Plato's cave to Wittgenstein “family resemblances”. This paper reviews some of those metaphors and discu... see more

junot cornélio matos

This article is based on the Socratic philosophy of permanent dialogue in the pursuit of a knowledge that belongs to no one and does not offer full and definitive certainty. I discuss the possibility of understanding the category “childhood,” starting wit... see more

maria miraglia

The article examines the need to increase an education toward the development of complex thinking in urban areas where there is a considerable amount of social unrest. The school often fails to bridge the gap between educator/education and learner and thi... see more

rodolfo rezola amelivia

Philosophers have a way of talking like childlike spirits who call into question what others regard as self-evident, thus taking themselves and us to unexpected locations. Can you be a learner of something which in fact is everything—or at least almost ev... see more