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  • Center for Public Philosophy, University of California-Santa Cruz →

Latest News

  • Virtual Event: High School Philosophy Teaching

    Virtual Event: High School Philosophy Teaching

    Join us on Monday, October 25, 2021 at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT for a virtual event: High School …
  • Call for Proposals – APA Eastern Division Meeting

    Call for Proposals – APA Eastern Division Meeting

    Call for Proposals Philosophy Across the Generations APA Eastern Division Meeting January 5—January 8, 2022 Montreal, Canada The Philosophy Teaching …
  • Virtual Event: Why Kids Are Good for Philosophy

    Virtual Event: Why Kids Are Good for Philosophy

    Join us on June 15, 2021 at 7 pm EST/ 4 pm PST for a virtual event: Why Kids Are …
  • Meet the Authors of the Big Ideas for Young Thinkers Book Series

    Meet the Authors of the Big Ideas for Young Thinkers Book Series

    Join us on May 4th at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT to meet the authors of the Big Ideas for …
  • Little Voices, Big Ideas podcast

    Little Voices, Big Ideas podcast

    Little Voices, Big Ideas podcast, on New Orleans Public Radio, explores the rich and often surprising content of children’s books—and …

The Philosopher’s Toolkit

  • Snooping Around Snopes: Assessing Fake News

    Snooping Around Snopes: Assessing Fake News

    This lesson revolves around reading and discussing Carl Sagan’s “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection” and then sending students to …
  • Crash: An Ethical Obstacle Course

    Crash: An Ethical Obstacle Course

    Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, weaves together the lives of several characters from multiple backgrounds who collide in the  busy, …
  • The Ethics of the Creation of Dual-Species Chimeras

    The Ethics of the Creation of Dual-Species Chimeras

    On November 6, 2015, NPR aired a story about the very controversial topic of stem cell research. This story can …
  • Ethical Relativism

    Ethical Relativism

    Moral Relativism Many students come to the classroom assuming values are variant.  Have you heard any of the following? After …
  • The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Flim

    The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Flim

    The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Film Read “The Oppositional Gaze” for homework the day before class.  It’s fairly long …

PLATO Resources

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  • Philosophy of Childhood

  • Thinking Together: Philosophical Inquiry for the Classroom

  • Creating the Ethical School

  • Philosophy Goes To School

  • Just think: it’s important

  • Something to Prove: philosophy, community of inquiry & creative thinking

  • Transforming Thinking: Philosophical Inquiry in the Primary and Secondary Classroom

  • Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion

  • Open Minds: Using Partnerships between Philosophers, Harvard University, and Local Schools to Rediscover the Purpose of Education

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