The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting story, Just Think: It’s important, about Peter Ellerton, who is trying to get more support for pre-collegiate instruction in Philosophy in Australia. Does anyone know if there is an Australian Association of Philosophy Teachers? Is there anything that we who are members of the AAPT or the APA sub-committee on pre-collegiate instruction can do to help?
Philosophy Teachers in OZ:
August 28th, 2008 Peter Bradley Posted in Pre-College Instruction, Philosophy in the News No Comments »
More missed stories:
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A few more stories I missed while out of town:
- A story about participants in the national “Kids Philosophy Slam” from their hometown paper (The Signal - Santa Clarita Valley):
Meadows students dominate in philosophy slam - A story about a Canadian 12-grader who won an essay contest with an essay on Aristotle in The Barrie Advance:
He’s an athlete and a philosopher - A response to Appiah’s X-Phi essay in the NY Times from last Dec on ScienceBlog.com:
God is a Corporation? - And a bizarre snipit from ‘Reporters without Borders’ about a man being sentenced for threatening Robert Redeker after his controversial op-end (see Death Threats in Brussels, France (Robert Redeker) for a summary:
27.06 - France: man gets suspended prison sentence for threatening French philosopher