Peter Worley has a new philosophy session: Communication, out now, here on the blog and in our Enquiries page.

Our Young Philosophers Project has just completed its third year.  On our most recent trip, we took our group to visit the Istituto Marangon - a school of fashion, in Shoreditch.  There we learned a great deal about what the fashion insiders like to call 'The Industry', and where the inspiration for everyone's taste and choice of clothes come from... who's deciding what we should wear and what we should think looks good?

Life is radically ungrounded. To prepare young people for it, teachers should view their classrooms as places for experimentation, writes Philosophy Foundation specialist Alex Dutson

Steven Campbell-Harris reminds us that some of our attempts at reasoning can miss something.  If a child, or an adult, makes a declarative statement that they claim is true and then attempts to provide reasons or grounds for why that is so, there is a third thing that is needed, the warrant, which is often left as an unstated assumption about why the grounds justify the claim.  How can philosophical enquiry help with getting us out of this lazy way of expressing our ideas?