Radical Empiricism

Abstract

Introduction:  In the early days of Philosophy for Children, the charge was frequently made that there was a parochialism about Philosophy for Children, i.e., that it stemmed from a specific philosophical tradition and, consequently, exhibited all the prejudices and blindness of that tradition.  Marxist critiques, for example, saw Lockean springs "run" through a Pragmatic filter which led to Philosophy for Children being used as an educational instrument by the dominant class to support its continual oppression of the less propertied.