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		<title>Is philosophy relevant to the 21st Century? Why?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously The Philosophy Foundation and its supporters think that the answer to this is a resounding YES! But on World Philosophy Day (this year held on November 17th) we want to hear as many different reasons from our readers and friends as possible. So we are handing over to you. Tell us why you this philosophy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=144&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live philosophy session on radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primary school philosophy live on radio, some hints and tips, techniques and good practice used and noted down here to show trainee philosophy teachers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=139&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religion, Arguments and Editing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oliver Leech MPhil writes a philosophical argument about God, but also invites you in to a meta-level discussion about the problems of working with the press: WRITING ABOUT RELIGION The New Statesman (July 25th, 2011) published an article called ‘Faith No More’ by Andrew Zak Williams. In its heading readers were reminded that earlier in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=136&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can philosophy help with the rioting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first response to this is that ‘critical thinking’ or ‘reasoning’ is merely the difference between irrational criminals and rational ones. Or, those that get caught and those that don’t! Here’s an argument for a positive role for philosophy in the context of the motivations behind the riots: Having conducted many philosophical enquiries with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=128&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy in the UK: Philosophy, a luxury or a necessity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was during the student riots in the late 1960’s in America that the first ‘Philosophy for Children’ novel, Harry Stottlemeier’s Discovery, was written (1969). Matthew Lipman, a professor of philosophy at Columbia University was troubled by the lack of dialogue and dialogical abilities among students (and between students and faculty members!). The book was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=124&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘The demonstration with the slave in the Meno  proves nothing. The discussion is rigged. Socrates has the answers from the outset, so he can lead the slave into giving the answers.’ Discuss.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meno asks Socrates to “somehow show that things are as he says”; to show that “…we do not learn but that which we call learning is recollection.” (81e) In response Socrates asks a slave boy to come over to them and he proceeds to question the boy about geometry in order to demonstrate to Meno [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=120&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Socratic Method for Problem Solving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a method for problem solving that I have developed over some years inspired by Socrates’ demonstration with a slave boy in Plato’s Meno. It is a method I have found to be highly effective with a 100% success rate so far. It provides strong motivation in uncertainty and encourages collective intelligence and collaborative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=114&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell them the answer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reasoning is like joining the dots. It is all about making connections, step by step, between different points in a chain to reach a conclusion. Sometimes, in order to establish a route, you need to know the starting point and the end point. So, it can sometimes be logically fruitful to tell your class the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=111&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the holes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socrates: This knowledge will not come from teaching but from questioning. [The student] will recover it for himself. Plato, The Meno (circa. 4th century BCE) To transform your teaching try the following experiment for the next week. Begin by adopting the following principle: maximise your question-asking in your teaching. When you have a puncture the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=109&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speech from The Philosophers&#8217; Football Match 9/05/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 09:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are there any women here today? It’s great to see so many living philosophers in one place at this bizarre, ridiculous, wonderful event. I think the collective noun is a ponder of philosophers. If there are not very many does it reduce to a ‘pond’ and if there are too many then does it become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thephilosophyshop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418998&amp;post=103&amp;subd=thephilosophyshop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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