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    2020 PLATO Conference in San Diego is Postponed

    Dear PLATO members and Conference community, The past few weeks have been confusing and challenging for all of us. Everyday …
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    Introducing PLATO’s Executive Director, Debi Talukdar

    Dear PLATO Community   I am honored to serve as PLATO’s first Executive Director, and excited to introduce myself to …
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The Philosopher’s Toolkit

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    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 …
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    What is art? An Art Activity

    Have each student draw two pictures. One drawing must be a drawing they would call art, and the other one …
  • What is a Human Being?

    What is a Human Being?

    The first half of Brave New World  by Aldous Huxley depicts a socially programmed society in which advances in science and …
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    ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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  • A Modular Curriculum for Introducing Philosophy to Pre-college Students

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  • A Sneetch is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries: Finding Wisdom in Children’s Literature

  • Philosophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas

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