Memphis: Keeping the Child in Mind
From September 10th – the 13th I’m heading to Memphis, TN for a conference on Philosophy for Children put on by the University’s Philosophical Horizons program:
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and made possible through support from the Tennessee Board of Regents, the Squire Family Foundation, and the Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities, Keeping the Child in Mind: A Conference on the Philosophy of Children will be held on September 11-12, 2009. Gareth Matthews, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts and author of Philosophy and the Young Child (1980), Dialogues with Children (1984), and The Philosophy of Childhood (1994), will be the keynote speaker. Local teachers and administrators, as well as the general public, are invited to attend. Further information about the conference is available here.
If you can make it out, it should be an excellent time. I’ll be hanging around an additional day to make connections and invite participants to discuss the strategy of a nationwide philosophy for children program.
