Our philosophy evening at Subplot57 - 24th April 2019

This blog is about our montlhy event at SubPlot57. Join us for convivial conversations around philosophy and life at SubPlot57 underneath Leaf and Groove on the final Wednesday of every month. There is a bar available during the evening where you can purchase soft drinks, wine, beer and gin. Drinking and thinking with new friends

Posted by Emma Worley on 25th April 2019 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy

Tags: Think and Drink, Shakespeare

Can Educators Know What Children Need?

Life is radically ungrounded. To prepare young people for it, teachers should view their classrooms as places for experimentation, writes Philosophy Foundation specialist Alex Dutson

Posted by Joe Tyler on 12th June 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

How To Do Philosophy in Public

Steven Campbell-Harris reminds us that some of our attempts at reasoning can miss something.  If a child, or an adult, makes a declarative statement that they claim is true and then attempts to provide reasons or grounds for why that is so, there is a third thing that is needed, the warrant, which is often left as an unstated assumption about why the grounds justify the claim.  How can philosophical enquiry help with getting us out of this lazy way of expressing our ideas? 

Posted by Joe Tyler on 5th June 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

Young Philosophers Take The Law Into Their Own Hands

Last month's Young Philosophers Project trip saw our group of young thinkers apprehending, comprehending and judging both works of art and a case of criminal conviction in the impressive offices of Simmons & Simmons.  Thanks to the organisers from the law firm and to Magistrates in the Community for making this trip such a success.

Posted by Joe Tyler on 13th March 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

Tags: Law, Young Philosophers, Judgement, Aesthetics, Decision

Whose question is it anyway?

Steven Campbell-Harris attended the SOPHIA conference in Portugal this month.  Here's some of his thoughts on what went on.  If you were there and would like to contribute further ideas to our blog, feel free to post a reply in the comments section, or get in touch with joe@philosophy-foundation.org

Posted by Joe Tyler on 12th July 2017 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

Tags: Questioning, SOPHIA, good thinking