الأطفال و الاشتغال الفلسفي

Abstract EN

Some philosophers claim that young children cannot do philosophy.

The aim of this paper is to examine some of those claims, and to put forward arguments against them.

Our beliefs that children cannot do philosophy are based on philosophical assumptions about children, their thinking, and about philosophy.

Many of those assumptions remain unquestioned by critics of Philosophy with Children.

The derived conclusion is that the idea that very young children can do philosophy has not only significant consequences for how we should educate young children, but also for how adults should do philosophy; and that further research is urgently needed.