Introducing philosophy to children at a young age provides a great opportunity to cultivate their sense of wonder; it helps to develop their ability to ask big questions and think independently.

It may seem a bit odd that a magazine like Psychology Today is sponsoring a blog by a band of philosophers. After all, isn't philosophy supposed to be something entirely separate from psychology? Aren ...

Belfort Bax belonged to the first generation of British Marxists. He was the philosopher who introduced William Morris to dialectics. From… The following article was written for an on-line discussion ...

Philosophy is a subject that usually makes its formal entry into a student's curriculum at the college level, though a growing number of high schools in the United States are offering some ...

The idea of introducing philosophy to secondary schools has enjoyed some attention recently. This has been motivated, in part, by frustration with our memory-focused exam system which leaves students ...

Simon Blackburn is Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities. Our world is built on ideas. We have ideas about how science should be conducted, how a liberal society should defend itself ...