Philosophy Camps for Youth

Claire Elise Katz is associate dean of faculties, the Murray and Celeste chair in distinguished teaching in the liberal arts, and professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. The author of three monographs and numerous articles, she is the recipient of the Association of Former Students University Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching and the American Philosophical Association Prize for Teaching Excellence.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Claire Katz

Part I. How to start, organize, and run a philosophy camp

Observations on the Aggie School of Athens: Running a Philosophy Summer Camp in South Central Texas

Claire Katz

Developing a Philosophy Summer Camp at the University of Kentucky

Caroline Buchanan, PhD, James William Lincoln, MA & MS, Suraj Chaudhary, MA, Clay Graham, MA, Andrew Van’t Land, MA, Lauren Dickey, MA, Colin Smith, MA

The Iowa Lyceum

Landon D. C. Elkind (University of Iowa) and Gregory Stoutenburg (York College of Pennsylvania)

The Philosophy and Critical Thinking (PACT) Summer Camp at Ohio State

James Fritz, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer, Justin D’Arms, Julia Jorati

Philosophy Summer Camp: A Philosophical World of Tangible Conversations

Kimberly Arriaga-Gonzalez, Cristina Cammarano, & Jackson Malkus

Corrupt the Youth

Alex Hargroder and Briana Toole

From the Ground Up: Developing a High School Philosophy Camp

Charlie Kurth and Adam Waggoner

Part II. Sample Activities and Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan: Justice and Different Types of Evidence

Jamie Fritz

Lesson Plan: How Should Scientists Choose the Best Theory?

Roger Sansom

Playing the Hobbes Game at Philosophy Camp

Robert Garcia

Rational Choice Theory and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Cora Drozd

Philosophy, Magic, and Curiosity: Reflections on P4C Texas’s 2019 Summer Camp

Michael Portal

The If/Then Exercise and The Case for Incorporating P4C into Pre-K Camps and Programs

Charles Carlson

Teaching Freire: Philosophy for Children Lesson

Ana Olivares-McFadden

Part III. Camper/Parent Observations

Aggie School of Athens at Texas A&M University

Evelyn Conway

Calla Duffield

Ellie Hague

Mia Paulk

E. Grace Sorensen

Andrew Sorescu, Alina Sorescu, and Sorin Sorescu

Surya Sunkari



Iowa

Nicholas C. Peters

Maeve Ward

Christopher C. Peters



MOSHI Winter Camp

Su-Yin Bouchot

PACT Ohio State

Ezra Johnson

Larada McCreary

Shefali Sinha

Kevin and Melisssa Shoultz



Salisbury

Sophia Smith

Ryan Cadwaller



Appendix: Pre-college philosophy works

Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Philosophy for Children Program on Students’ Cognitive Outcomes (excerpt)

Sijin Yan, Lynne Masel Walters, Zhuoying Wang, Dr. Chia-Chiang Wang

Contributors