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The Never Dying Soul
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The Knowing of God
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The Nature of God
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Cindy Rand
Kafka’s “Before the Law”
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Love and Rain
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Jack Bowen
What Really Really Happened
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An aspiring author of a children’s book regarding Philosophy explains a story with overcoming obstacles at a baseball game through a casual delivery.
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Kenneth Perrone
What Is Art?
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John Davis
Kids Philosophy Slam
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Essays, drawings, and poems by children in kindergarten through eighth grade in the subject “War or Peace? Is world peacepossible, or does human nature make war inevitable?" plus essays by the high school finalists and winners.
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Maryann Krikorian
Life is a Journey . . .
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Reflective essay focusing on both a discussion of personal identity issues with ninth grade students and the(delayed) impact that a student contribution can have on philosophy teachers.
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Kayla Bruun
Finalists, 2008 Kids Philosophy Slam, High School
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An argument for global warming and the consequent environmental changes from it as a solution for the problems of overpopulation and overconsumption of resources. A winning submission to the Philosophy Slam.
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Melissa Misenhimer
Friendship
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Reflective essay focusing on a discussion of friendship with a group of fourth grade students. Includes a brief discussion of a learning game that focuses on the problems of listening to others.
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Debbie Whittaker
Philosophy in Schools:
The Cal-State, Long Beach Program
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Description of the Center for the Advancement of Philosophy in the Schools (CAPS) program at California State University, Long Beach. The program places undergraduate philosophy students in area schools to lead pre-college students in various philosophical learning activities.
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Melissa Tellez
What is Real?
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Reflective essay focusing on a discussion with third grade students over the nature of observation on determining if something is real or fantasy. The problems of illusions, specifically magic tricks, is a central issue in the discussion.
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Brandon T. Minnis
Personal Identity
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Cho-Kiu Lam
Beauty
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Roger Vasquez
Epistemology and External World Skepticism
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Pedagogical description and reflection upon an activity focusing on the use of a questioning game to display epistemological uncertainty and the impact of a possible Cartesian evil demon on the game’s players’ ability to come to have knowledge.
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Epistemology and External World Skepticism (continued)
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Rory E. Kraft, Jr., Alison Reiheld
From the Editors
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Alison Reiheld, Rory Kraft
Brain in the Vat
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A summary and brief discussion of the pedagogical usefulness of Hilary Putnam’s classic thought experiment from Reason, Truth, and History.
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