Childhood and Philosophy

Aims & Scope

childhood and philosophy is a journal that has been waiting to be born at least since Socrates sat down in the unique (at least for us) shelter of the 5th century BC polis and founded a discipline.

The journal’s conception lies much, much later, in the fateful historical meeting between childhood education and philosophy.

The form of education spawned by disciplinary power has long been an enemy of childhood and philosophy.

Correspondingly, “professional” or “real” philosophers typically scoff at the suggestion that children are capable of philosophizing.

We believe that a concern with children doing philosophy is inseparable from a preoccupation with childhood itself.

This gets its basis from the observation that many adults — and especially both adults who teach children in schools and professional philosophers — seem in most cases either to overlook or to flatly deny children’s capacity to think philosophically.

This is profoundly complicated by the fact that to think children doing philosophy is to redefine philosophy itself.

Therefore it is not enough to say the obvious — that children cannot do philosophy as we do.

To think children doing philosophy also asks for a redefinition of childhood itself.

It is both of these redefinitions, caught in chiasmic relation, which this journal seeks to explore.

And this exploration is at least one fundamental dimension of the group of philosophers and educators who make up the International Council For Philosophical Inquiry With Children.

ICPIC already has a long history, which is a click away, at www.icpic.org, and childhood and philosophy is designed to act as one of its many voices.

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This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• thinking with perceptual skills in philosophy for and with children (p4wc) | pensar con destrezas perceptivas en la filosofía para y con niños (fpcn) | pensar com habilidades perceptivas na filosofia para e com crianças (fpcc)

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Anda, Ileana

• a plea for a child-orientated ethics of childhood

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Sarah-jane

• may i kindle a light?

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Mahsa, Amin

• fpn y el activismo social | LA P4Co E L’ATTIVISMO SOCIALE. COMUNITÀ DI DIALOGO FILOSOFICO A SOSTEGNO DELLA SPERIMENTAZIONE MONETARIA CONTEMPORANEA

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Cristina

• adapting philosophical dialogue to support the epistemic agency of neurodivergent children

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Marie

• exploring the application of empirical research in philosophy for children

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  Authors: Hye in

• uma conversa on-line no youtube sobre paternidade e adoção | an online conversation on youtube about parenthood and adoption | una conversación online en youtube sobre paternidad y adopción

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Saulo, Luiz, Dilton, Tania

• L'inclusion de l'adolescent.e dans la pratique du dialogue philosophique

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Nadia, Mathieu

• emotion, disequilibrium and attentive compassion

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Michela, Lucy

• spinoza on procreation

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Noa