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Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization

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Latest News

  • 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

  • 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 …
  • In-Class Ethics Bowl

    In-Class Ethics Bowl

    Materials needed: Prior to Bowl: A useful general description of ethics designed for High School Ethics Bowls – to use …
  • What is the world really made of?

    What is the world really made of?

    In Leibniz’s 1714 Monadology we have an example of the many different ways that philosophers have theorized about the constitution …
  • Activity: Keep the Question Going

    Activity: Keep the Question Going

    This game involves students generating questions collaboratively. The exercise runs easily for about ten minutes and can go for a …
  • Protected: P4C – Fundamentals of Argument

    Protected: P4C – Fundamentals of Argument

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PLATO Resources

  • Questions: Philosophy for Young People

  • Philosophy in Children’s Literature

  • Blog Philos

  • School Teaches Students How to Argue

  • University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children

  • Dualist: Stanford’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

  • A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox

  • Examined Life: Advanced Philosophy for Kids

  • Philosophy for Teens: Questioning Life’s Big Ideas

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

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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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