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Latest News

  • PLATO Toolkit Competition

    PLATO Toolkit Competition

    Share your philosophical expertise with the community! The PLATO Toolkit offers free lesson plans to K-12 teachers on our website …
  • Successful Philosophy in the Community Program in Montana

    Successful Philosophy in the Community Program in Montana

    Merlin CCC offers philosophy experiences in Helena, Montana for community members of all ages. This organization believes that philosophy can …
  • Philosophy for Children Program at California State University Bakersfield

    Philosophy for Children Program at California State University Bakersfield

    PLATO would like to thank Senem Saner, PhD from the Philosophy Department at California State University Bakersfield for taking the …
  • New Philosophy Summer Camp for Children Focusing on the Environment

    New Philosophy Summer Camp for Children Focusing on the Environment

    The Environmental Explorers Philosophy Summer Camp will be held June 3-7 PLATO would like to thank Rika Tsuji for contributing …
  • Longmont, Colorado Celebrates a Month of Philosophy

    Longmont, Colorado Celebrates a Month of Philosophy

    Grey Havens Philosophy ran the Longmont Thinks! Month was in April 2019 and will be followed by Summer of the …

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 …
  • Nagel’s What is it like to be a bat?

    Nagel’s What is it like to be a bat?

    In his article, “What is it like to be a bat?” Thomas Nagel argues that there are facts about the …
  • The Demarcation Problem and Falsifiability

    The Demarcation Problem and Falsifiability

    Popper on Falsifiability One of the practical consequences of the Scientific Revolution was a suggestion that one should only believe …
  • Escape from Spiderhead

    Escape from Spiderhead

    Introduction: George Saunders’ “Escape from Spiderhead” is a dystopian short story that portrays a controlled pharmacological environment in which scientists experimentally …
  • The Trial of Socrates

    The Trial of Socrates

    Steven Goldberg / The Trial of Socrates  Topics: The compatibility of religious piety with philosophical inquiry; The question whether morality is …

PLATO Resources

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

  • Why Health Care Will Never Be Equal

  • A Matter of Life and Debt

  • Moral Problems: A Coursebook

  • The Moral Instinct

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

  • Questions: Philosophy for Young People

  • Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers

  • Reflections on Assessment

  • Philosophical Adventures with Children

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PLATO promotes philosophy classes for all K-12 students, including those in classrooms least likely to have access to academic enrichment programs. Bringing together the education and philosophy communities, PLATO celebrates diversity within the philosophy classroom and endorses a wide variety of philosophical approaches and methods.

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