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2Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy during primary-school education. Wartenberg also gives advice on how to construct a "learner-centered" classroom, in which children discuss philosophical issues with one another as they respond to open-ended ques…Read more
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2Knuffle BunnyIn A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.This chapter highlights different ways in which people communicate with one another. Although language is clearly a crucial means of communication, there are many other things that we can do to convey a message to someone. The chapter presents a story of in which Trixie had difficulty communicating to her father that they had left Knuffle Bunny at the Laundromat. Philosophers from earlier centuries would have viewed Trixie's difficulty as stemming from her attaching the wrong sounds (words?) to …Read more
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2David Bordwell and Noël Carroll, eds., Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (2): 85-87. 1998.
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2Emily's ArtIn A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.This chapter talks about Peter Catalanotto's delightfully illustrated picture book, Emily's Art. Traditionally, the philosophy of art was also called aesthetics, a term derived from the ancient Greek. There are many intriguing issues in the philosophy of art. For example, philosophers have proposed various different solutions to the question of what art is. Art is a subject that interests children because they often are engaged in producing it. So an interesting way to begin a discussion of issu…Read more
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2The Big Orange SplotIn A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.In Daniel Manus Pinkwater's quirkily illustrated book, The Big Orange Splot, a strange accident leads a man to change his life. The book presents an important claim that the existentialists and other philosophers have embraced: That the life of conformity is one that people ought to avoid, despite its attractiveness. Instead of living a life just like everyone else and fulfilling expectations that others have for us, our lives should resemble the transformed facades of all the homes on Mr. Plumb…Read more
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2Many MoonsIn A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.The theory of knowledge attempts to explain the nature and extent of human knowledge. A good place to begin the discussion on this theory is with the Princess Lenore's beliefs about the moon in Many Moons, a children's story on the different conceptions of knowledge. The story raises important questions about the nature of knowledge and those who claim to have it. We can understand the philosophical point that Many Moons makes about knowledge ask why the Jester is able to solve a problem that no…Read more
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1Does Philosophy Improve Children's ThinkingIn Ali Bassiri (ed.), Implementing Philosophy in Elementary Schools, Authorhouse. pp. 34-41. 2013.
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1Morris the MooseIn A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.People could have mistaken beliefs that they arrive at by faulty reasoning. B.Wiseman's delightful book, Morris the Moose, takes a more detailed look at such reasoning, itself the subject of philosophical logic. Morris explains to the cow why she must be a moose. He draws a false conclusion from true premises: that the cow has four legs, a tail, and horns. His problem could have been remedied by paying more attention to logic. Morris appeals to something like the following principle: Things that…Read more
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1Let's Do Nothing!In A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.This chapter talks about Tony Fucile's amusing book, Let's Do Nothing!. This book straddles the boundary between metaphysics and the philosophy of language, for the concept of nothing has been a very puzzling one to philosophers. But before entering those murky waters, let's see how Sal and Frankie fare in their attempt to do nothing. Sal and Frankie were trapped in their own fly bottle when they tried to do nothing. Sal's discovery — that you can't do nothing — was a philosophical discovery, on…Read more
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1Why? Why? Why?In A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries, Wiley‐blackwell. 2013.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments.
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1Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer, eds., Essays in Kant's Aesthetics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (5): 185-187. 1984.
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Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer, eds., Essays in Kant's Aesthetics (review)Philosophy in Review 4 185-187. 1984.
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Social Movements and Individual Identity: A Critique of Freud on the Psychology of GroupsPhilosophical Forum 22 (4): 362. 1991.
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Teaching the Philosophy of Art in Elementary SchoolIn Roberta Israeloff & Jana Mohr Lone (eds.), Philosophy and Education. pp. 151-58. 2012.
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Elementary School PhilosophyIn Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak & Thomas E. Wartenberg (eds.), Philosophy in schools: an introduction for philosophers and teachers, Routledge. pp. 334-41. 2013.
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Social-movements and individual identity-a critique of Freud on the psychology of groupsPhilosophical Forum 22 (4): 362-382. 1991.
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Philosophy@The Virtual Art MuseumNewsletter of the American Society for Aesthetics 3 (37): 6-8. 2017.
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Examining the Effects of Philosophy Classes on the Early Development of Argumentation SkillsIn Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak & Thomas E. Wartenberg (eds.), Philosophy in schools: an introduction for philosophers and teachers, Routledge. pp. 277-87. 2013.