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Latest News

  • 2019 PLATO Conference: Join us in Florida

    2019 PLATO Conference: Join us in Florida

        The 2019 PLATO Conference is getting ready to blast off! Come for an amazing conference, and experience the …
  • Applying to the PLATO Philosophy Fund

    Applying to the PLATO Philosophy Fund

    Applications are now being accepted for the PLATO Philosophy Fund (PPF), supporting a wide range of innovative philosophy programs around …
  • Philosophy for Children Conference, hosted by NAACI, to be held June 2018 in Mexico

    Philosophy for Children Conference, hosted by NAACI, to be held June 2018 in Mexico

    NAACI Conference on “Education in a world in crisis: How philosophy for/by children might respond” in collaboration with The Mexican …
  • Learn about the upcoming Southern California Philosophy Academy for High School Students!

    Learn about the upcoming Southern California Philosophy Academy for High School Students!

    The SoCal Philosophy Academy for high school students will be hosted at California Lutheran University and run by Dr. Brian …
  • Reflections on Philosophy Classes for School Teachers

    Reflections on Philosophy Classes for School Teachers

    An Interview with PLATO President, Thomas Wartenberg   Since 2010, Thomas Wartenberg has led several Summer Seminars for School Teachers …

The Philosopher’s Toolkit

  • What Do We Find Beautiful?

    What Do We Find Beautiful?

    Introduction Students should be given a week to do the following assignment (though it can be revised as needed to …
  • Can animals make music?

    Can animals make music?

    We all love music.  Some of us sing daily, if just to ourselves.  It could be our favorite tune from …
  • 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, …
  • Can anyone make art?

    Can anyone make art?

    In 2007 an independent film came out entitled “My Kid could paint that.”  It followed the art career of a …
  • Social Contract Theory: Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment

    Social Contract Theory: Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment

    Materials needed John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, chapters two and eight. An alternative is James Rachels’ The Elements of …

PLATO Resources

  • At Landover Middle School, Philosophy Is Part of the Lunch Menu

  • Bringing Pre-College Philosophy Online at UNC-Chapel Hill

  • Plato Was Wrong! Footnotes on Doing Philosophy with Young People

  • BEARS: Brown Electronic Article Review Service – In Moral and Political Philosophy

  • The Moral Instinct

  • Evaluating the Use of Philosophical Inquiry in the Classroom with Ten- and Eleven-Year-Olds

  • Dualist: Stanford’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

  • Ethics 109: What is a child?

  • The If Machine: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom (Kindle)

  • The Philosophical Child

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