The Philosophy of Philosophy for Children: An Agenda for Research

Abstract

Introduction:  The integrity of a practice requires critical self-reflection.  Such critical self-reflection, it can be argued, requires for its objectivity the participation of reasonable individuals constituting a community whose members present their reasoned analyses for inter-subjective interpretation and assessment (Weinstein, "Reason and Critical Thinking," forthcoming Formal Logic).  Philosophy for Children, therefore, must demand of its participants an on-going consideration of its theory and its practice.  This paper is a call for such continued and reasonable critical self-reflection.