Reflections on SOPHIA Network Meeting 2018 – by Jason Buckley

Despite being involved in P4C for ten years, I was a SOPHIA first-timer. I’m rather wary of going to P4C conferences, because, like Goldilocks, I am rather fussy. Often, this paper is too theoretical, and I can’t see how it will connect to my practice; and that paper is about the basics of P4C without […]

Reflections on ICPIC & SOPHIA 2017 Part III

In this final post by Pieter Mostert he reflects on taxonomies, on pedagogy and on ‘philosophical experience’ and the aesthetic eye.  What happens to notes taken during a conference? Usually very little, at least in my case. This time I decided to do it differently – after the ICPIC conference in Madrid and the Sophia Network […]

Reflections on ICPIC & SOPHIA 2017 Part II

On deliberation, enquiry based actions and practising philosophy with children without philosophy By Pieter Mostert What happens to notes taken during a conference? Usually very little, at least in my case. This time I decided to do it differently – after the ICPIC conference in Madrid and the Sophia Network meeting in Aveiro – and […]

Reflections on ICPIC & SOPHIA 2017 Part I

On empirical questions, exposition and voting  By Pieter Mostert What happens to notes taken during a conference? Usually very little, at least in my case. This time I decided to do it differently – after the ICPIC conference in Madrid and the Sophia Network meeting in Aveiro – and pushed myself to structure and unfold […]

‘Can Children do Philosophy?’

Click  to watch  Can Children Do Philosophy? Published on 29 Apr 2016, The Battle of Ideas video includes talks from Peter Worley, President of SOPHIA and Catherine C. McCall (former President of SOPHIA). Our aim: to answer the question with “Yes”. “Philosophy is a venerable university subject, but until recently it was much less common […]

Philosophy As The Missing Link

Philosophy can play an important role in our schools’ curriculum. The question might be asked, “Why would anyone want to teach philosophy to pre-adolescent children?” but there are very good reasons why one might want to take on such a lofty task. I am not suggesting that the history of philosophy would be particularly pertinent […]