Gareth B Matthews (259 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Every week for a year, a professional philosopher and eight children at a school in Edinburgh met to craft stories reflecting philosophical problems. The philosopher, Gareth B. Matthews, believes that children are far more able and eager to think abstractly than adults generally recognize. This engaging book has profound implications for education and for our understating of the range of relationships between adults and children. With the example of these dialogues Matthews invites parents, teachers, and all adults to be open to those moments when they can share with children the pleasures of joint philosophical discovery.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Philosophy and the Young Child presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. In a series of exquisite examples that could only have been gathered by a professional philosopher with an extraordinary respect for young minds, Gareth Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and mental play that leads them to tackle many of the classic problems of knowledge, value and existence that have traditionally formed the core of philosophical thought. Matthews' anecdotes reveal children reasoning about these problems in a way that must be taken seriously by anyone who wants to understand how children think.Philosophy and the Young Child provides a powerful antidote to the widespread tendency to underestimate children's mental ability and patronize their natural curiosity. As Matthews shows, even child psychologists as insightful as Piaget have failed to grasp the subtlety of children's philosophical frame of mind. Only in children's literature does Matthews find any sensitivity to children's natural philosophizing. Old favorites like Winnie the Pooh, the Oz books, and The Bear That Wasn't are full of philosophical puzzlers that amuse and engage children. More important, these stories manage to strip away the mental defensiveness and conventionality that so often prevent adults from appreciating the way children begin to think about the world. Gareth Matthews believes that adults have much to gain if they can learn to do philosophy with children, and his book is a rich source of useful suggestions for parents, teachers, students and anyone else who might like to try.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Every week for a year, a professional philosopher and eight children at a school in Edinburgh met to craft stories reflecting philosophical problems. The philosopher, Gareth B. Matthews, believes that children are far more able and eager to think abstractly than adults generally recognize. This engaging book has profound implications for education and for our understating of the range of relationships between adults and children. With the example of these dialogues Matthews invites parents, teachers, and all adults to be open to those moments when they can share with children the pleasures of joint philosophical discovery.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Philosophy and the Young Child presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. In a series of exquisite examples that could only have been gathered by a professional philosopher with an extraordinary respect for young minds, Gareth Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and mental play that leads them to tackle many of the classic problems of knowledge, value and existence that have traditionally formed the core of philosophical thought. Matthews' anecdotes reveal children reasoning about these problems in a way that must be taken seriously by anyone who wants to understand how children think.Philosophy and the Young Child provides a powerful antidote to the widespread tendency to underestimate children's mental ability and patronize their natural curiosity. As Matthews shows, even child psychologists as insightful as Piaget have failed to grasp the subtlety of children's philosophical frame of mind. Only in children's literature does Matthews find any sensitivity to children's natural philosophizing. Old favorites like Winnie the Pooh, the Oz books, and The Bear That Wasn't are full of philosophical puzzlers that amuse and engage children. More important, these stories manage to strip away the mental defensiveness and conventionality that so often prevent adults from appreciating the way children begin to think about the world. Gareth Matthews believes that adults have much to gain if they can learn to do philosophy with children, and his book is a rich source of useful suggestions for parents, teachers, students and anyone else who might like to try.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom, 2005, 148 pp. Withdrawn library book with barcode and label. Text block is clean. Cover shows normal signs of wear.

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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. Harvard University Press [1994]. First Edition. First Printing. Hardbound. New, in dust jacket with price clipped. A pristine unread copy. Scholarly. 0.0.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 243 pp., x. '1' in number line. Following "A Few Start-of-Term Notices", "Abbreviations", and "The Magic of Philosophy", Contents divided into 16 Essays in 4 Parts: [Part I] "GRYFFINDOR: The Characters of Harry's World" (1) Tom Morris, "The Courageous Harry Potter"; (2) Diana Mertz Hsieh, "Dursley Duplicity: The Morality and Psychology of Self-Deception"; (3) Harald Thorsrud, "Voldemort's Agents, Malfoy's Cronies, and Hagrid's Chums: Friendship in Harry Potter"; (4) Mimi R. Gladstein, "Feminism and Equal Opportunity: Hermione and the Women of Hogwarts"[Part II] "HUFFLEPUFF: Morality in Rowling's Universe" (5) Jerry L. Walls, "Heaven, Hell, and Harry Potter"; (6) Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb and W. Christopher Stewart, "Magic, Science, and the Ethics of Technology"; (7) Shawn E. Klein, "The Mirror of Erised: Why We Should Heed Dumbledore's Warning"; (8) Steven W. Patterson, "Kreacher's Lament: S.P.E.W. as a Parable on Discrimination, Indifference and Social Justice"; [Part III] "SLYTHERIN: Knockturn Alley and the Dark Arts" (9) Steven W. Patterson, "Is Ambition a Virtue? Why Slytherin Belongs at Hogwarts"; (10) David and Catherine Deavel, "A Skewed Reflection: The Nature of Evil"; (11) Jennifer Hart Weed, "Voldemort, Boethius, and the Destructive Effects of Evil"; (12) David Baggett, "Magic, Muggles and Moral Imagination"; [Part IV] RAVENCLAW: Many-Flavored Topics in Metaphysics" (13) Gareth B. Matthews, "Finding Platform 9 3/4: The Idea of a Different Reality"; (14) Michael Silberstein, "Space, Time, and Magic"; (15) Jason T. Eberl, "Why Voldemort Won't Just Die Already: What Wizards Can Teach Us About Personal Identity"; (16) Gregory Bassham, "The Prophecy-Driven Life: Fate and Freedom at Hogwarts"; Hogwarts Emeritus Faculty, pp. 227-231; Current Hogwarts Faculty, pp. 233-236; A Wizard's Index, pp. 237-243. Brown boards with black backstrip and brilliant gilt lettering; black endpapers. Dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) in shades of brown with Title lettering in orange across top half front cover; Subtitle in gray and with editor names in small white letters superimposed across middle front cover; color photo-illustration of a snowy owl at bottom center front cover. FLAWLESS. NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks; unusually fresh, tight binding. UNREAD. Gift-Giving Quality. …