philosophy with children across boundaries

Abstract

The International Community of Philosophical Inquiry (ICPIC) has been organizing international conferences since its foundation in 1985. Those encounters put together several educators, philosophers and other practitioners committed to philosophical inquiry with children from different parts of the world., In August 2024 the International Federation of Philosophical Society – FISP held the 25th World Congress of Philosophy - WCP at University “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy celebrating “Philosophy across Boundaries”, including Philosophy with Children in the list of Sections contributing to reflection and discussion on the topic. It was a challenging opportunity for ICPIC to be involved in the event, sharing with the community the great occasion to meet in the frame of cosmopolitism. The Dossier “philosophy with children across boundaries” includes papers presented by authors participating in these different instances, witnessing the quality of international research which ICPIC reached in its history, with a high engagement into academic inquiry and beyond. The aim of Section n.81 as well as the Dossier is double: to show how the theme of children as philosophical inquirers defiances the dominant metaphysics of childhood as chronological time or psychological stage to be surpassed in the linear logic of power and development in adultism, appropriating a difference place, or better a movement among the traditional philosophical fields.