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TagPhilosophy Summer Programs 2026
Are you putting on a philosophy summer program, philosophy summer school, or philosophy camp in 2026? (more…)
Philosophy Summer Programs for High School Students – 2026
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for high school students. (more…)
New Film Captures the Value and Excitement of Ethics Bowl
The Bowl is a new documentary that follows a team of six girls and their teacher as they prepare for and compete in the National High School Ethics Bowl—and you may be able to arrange an interactive screening of it in your town. (more…)
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Local Student Recruitment
Some readers have noticed the alarming frequency with which posts in the category of “Cuts and Threats to Philosophy Programs” appear here. Given the current political winds, there might be more cuts coming. What can philosophy departments do to improve their chances of survival? (more…)
Philosophy Summer Programs for High School Students – 2025
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2025 Programs in Philosophy for high school students. (more…)
Improving Philosophy’s Prospects with a Model for Bringing it to High Schools (guest post)
If more people were exposed to philosophy in high school, that would likely be good for those students and good for their schools—and good for academic philosophy, too, as one risk to philosophy at the university level in the United States is that people (students, other university employees, the general public, legislators) tend to be relatively unfamiliar with i..
UK Education Union Leader: Teach Philosophy in Schools
Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, the largest education in the UK, as called for the nation’s schools to teach philosophy, according to The Guardian. (more…)
Two Ideas for Improving the Future of Philosophy (guest post)
“In this post, I want to encourage a conversation about active steps that we—all of us who love, teach, and write philosophy—might take to help philosophy’s future.” (more…)
Open Doors Philosophy Academy
The Open Doors Philosophy Academy is a philosophy summer program for undergraduates that is “designed to give individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in academic philosophy a taste of graduate student life as well as various forms of support useful in applying to and flourishing in Ph.D. programs in Philosophy.” (more…)
Philosophy Summer Programs for High School Students – 2024
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for high school students. (more…)
Summer Programs in Philosophy
Reminder: if you are running a summer program or summer school in philosophy, there is a place to list it to make it more visible to potentially interested parties. (more…)
UMass Center for Philosophy and Children Wins Grant
Last year, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, created a Center for Philosophy and Children (see this post). Now the Center has won a $250,000 grant to support its programs. (more…)
Elon Launches Freedom & Democracy Summer Program for High School Students
An interdicisplinary team of professors at Elon University are launching a philosophy-centric residential summer program on democracy and civic engagement for underserved students entering their senior year of high school. (more…)
Philosopher Wins $300K Grant For “Good Life” Project With Bronx Teens
Stephen R. Grimm, professor of philosophy at Fordham University, has been awarded a $300,000 grant to support a summer program in philosophy for high school students in the Bronx. (more…)
Summer 2022 Programs in Philosophy for High School Students
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2022 Summer Programs in Philosophy for high school students. (more…)
Ethics & Civic Education Program Seeks Help from Philosophers
An ethics and civic education program aimed at underserved communities and under-resourced schools, a project of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is looking for philosophers who are interested in helping. (more…)
Free Online NYU Event to Bring Philosophy to High School Students
The Annual High School Philosophy Conference @ NYU, a free, online event aimed at introducing high school students to philosophy and motivating them to learn more about it, will be taking place on September 18th. (more…)
Students from 50 Countries Participate in Philosophy Olympiad
The International Philosophy Olympiad took place last month, with 108 high school students from 50 different countries taking part. (more…)
The Battle for Philosophy in Serbian Schools (guest post)
Recently, the Serbian government eliminated philosophy from its required courses in high schools, replacing it with a set of electives (one of which is “logic and ethics”), and raising concerns not just about the education of students but also about those responsible for teaching the philosophy courses losing their jobs. (more…)
Summer Programs in Philosophy for High School Students, 2021 Edition
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2021 summer programs in philosophy for high school students. (more…)
Program to Bring Ethics Bowl to Under-Resourced High Schools
The University of North Carolina’s Parr Center for Ethics has created a new “bridge” program to bring the center’s National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) to new areas of the country, with a focus on under-resourced schools and underserved communities. (more…)
Dialexicon: A New Student-Led Philosophy Initiative
There’s a new “platform for high school students to learn, discuss, and contribute to philosophical thought and writing.” (more…)
Philosophy Camps for Teens (guest post by Claire Katz)
What we did not anticipate in that first summer was the intense relationship our campers would develop with each other, with philosophy, and with the experience of developing an intellectual community in the setting of a philosophy summer camp. (more…)
The 2020 International Philosophy Olympiad: Online and Inclusive
The International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO) is a philosophy writing competition and set of workshops and lectures for high school students, sponsored by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP). Held in various cities around the world since its start in 1993, the IPO was to take place this year in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but owing to the pandemic,..
Teaching Philosophy to High Schoolers Stuck at Home
With K-12 students across the world at home instead of school, and with school districts varying in how they are educating them under these circumstances, some parents are taking it upon themselves to supplement their children’s education. (more…)
Summer Programs in Philosophy for High School Students 2020
Are you organizing a summer program in philosophy for high school students, or know of any? (more…)
“Corrupt the Youth” Wins Prize for Excellence & Innovation in Philosophy Programs
Corrupt the Youth, an organization that brings philosophy to high school students and others, has won the 2019 Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs, awarded jointly by the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC). (more…)
Course to Teach University Students to Engage Philosophically with High Schoolers
The University of Pennsylvania is offering a course that will teach undergraduates how to teach philosophy to high school students. (more…)