Flint and stone
I get the same charge from the juxtaposition of colors as I do from the juxtaposition of chords. Joni Mitchell The creative is always an act of recombination…as making a […]
Tag Archives: philosophy
The Jazz
My favourite cookbook, Cooking Com Bigode, is both more and less than a standard recipe book. Less, in that it’s low on specificity, with recipes vaguely suggesting “some onions”, “lots […]
The Real-Life Truman Show
There’s often a troubling gap between understanding educational principles in the abstract and applying them in real-life situations. To help bridge the gap, the next three posts will offer detailed […]
Unveiling and packaging
Early one summer morning, a young Australian philosophy graduate was awoken by a phone call. It was the eminent professor David Lewis, calling from Princeton University’s philosophy department. “You’ve been […]
The philosopher activist
An interview with Violet CoCo . There’s a memorable short video in which philosopher of happiness Dr Caroline West is asked why Western society has become so obsessed with material […]
Is philosophy dead?
You might have noticed: having a dig at philosophy seems to have become a sport among high profile scientists. Stephen Hawking famously declared: “philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept […]
Beyond parallel play: Three keys to dialogic argument
In honour of World Philosophy Day, I’m capping off my series on relativism and evaluativism today. If you haven’t read my previous posts in the series – Epistemology Needs to […]
Starting them young
Our early experiments in preschool philosophy have been embraced by a local kindergarten. In weekly philosophy sessions, four- and five-year-olds are learning how to think deeply about big questions, how […]
Questioning debate
The recent podcast episode ‘Debatable‘ from WNYC’s Radiolab got me thinking about formal debating and its relationship to the sort of collaborative enquiry we foster at The Philosophy Club. The podcast […]
Philosophy in the Art Room
This post is adapted from a talk we recently presented to artists and teachers at an ArtPlay event entitled “But Why? Philosophy and Art with Children”. Are art and philosophy […]
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