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  • Job Opening at PLATO: Executive Director

    Job Opening at PLATO: Executive Director

    PLATO is Hiring! Interested candidates should send an email message describing their interest in the position, along with an attached …
  • 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 …

The Philosopher’s Toolkit

  • 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, …
  • Arguments and Philosophical Reasoning

    Arguments and Philosophical Reasoning

    Materials needed Chalkboard or whiteboard Computer and projector or equipment to watch short video clips from the web   Introduction …
  • 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 …
  • Activity: What’s Your Reason?

    Activity: What’s Your Reason?

    This game involves students writing down claims supported by reasons and then guessing each others’ claims after listening only to …
  • Exploring Existential Angst and the Self in Social Media

    Exploring Existential Angst and the Self in Social Media

    Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre in Nausea Students will be introduced to Existentialism through discussion and excerpts from Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel, …

PLATO Resources

  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do?

  • Philosophy for Children (Stony Brook)

  • Center for Critical Thinking

  • The If Odyssey: A Philosophical Journey Through Greek Myth and Storytelling for 8-16-Year-Olds

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

  • Children Philosophize Worldwide: Theoretical and Practical Concepts

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

  • The Philosophical Student

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

  • Learn Philosophy

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