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...Philosophical Association and has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Connecticut writing a book about the Epistemology of the Global South. Maria Kronfeldner Kronfeldner is Professor at Central...

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How to do ‘Jazzy Philosophy’: An Interview with Maria daVenza Tillmanns

Maria daVenza Tillmanns does philosophy with children in an underserved school in San Diego. She says of her work, “Doing philosophy with young children is like painting with ideas, giving...

Maria daVenza Tillmanns

Maria daVenza Tillmanns does philosophy with children in an underserved school in San Diego. In 2020 she published Why We Are in Need of Tails, a book that discusses how...

Proprioception of Thinking and Emotional Intelligence are Central to Doing Philosophy with Children

...of thinking. Dr. Maria Montessori developed a method of teaching based on providing young children with concrete experiences of the teaching tools she devised from which they could then better...

Philosophy with Children and the Proprioception of Thinking

Proprioception is usually used in reference to body movement and the self-perception of body movement. Proprius in Latin means “one’s own,” or “self.” It refers to the physical knowledge acquired,...

Aporia and the Implications for the Intuitive Knowledge of Children

When rationality fails us we are puzzled and left with a sense of aporia (απορια) meaning puzzlement or wonderment. We are “at a loss,” perplexed. Many of Plato’s dialogues leave...

Can Philosophy with Children be an Antidote to Radicalized Thinking?

After Brexit became a reality in the UK and Trump became a reality in the United States, many thought that this was perhaps the last stand of those who thought...

APA Member Interview: Maria daVenza Tillmanns

Maria daVenza Tillmanns teaches a program that does philosophy with children in underserved San Diego schools in partnership with the University of California, San Diego. In the 1980’s she attended...