Thirty-three SUNY Cortland undergraduates recently decided to give away $10,000 in real money to four Cortland non-profit organizations they think will use the funds to help develop local residents’ ...

Philosophy is a very dense universe to approach for young people. Because it includes many thinkers who have totally different views on human experience, existence, etc. Presented in this way, it can ...

Navigate some of the deepest questions human beings have asked — questions about the basic character of reality, the limits of knowledge, the place of mind in nature, the best life for a person and ...

We hear a lot about things kids “must” learn. Indeed, President Obama just announced he was going to ask Congress for $4 billion to fund an initiative to bring computer science to more students.

At the present time there are several organizations which provide resources that encourage elementary and secondary schools to offer philosophy classes to their students. The Philosophy for Children ...

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming provides an intellectually stimulating environment for students to explore timeless questions and the world’s diverse ...

Socrates had important answers to the big questions in life. But he was especially good at asking questions, helping his students use their own reason to discover answers that were available to them ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

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