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M.A Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. Phenomenology - Social Epistemology - Philosophy of Mind - Philosophy of Pornography Events Coordinator for British Postgraduate Philosophy Association My Links: https://linktr.ee/amcdermottphilosophy
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The cover photograph is from my time at Holy Cross Boys Primary School in Ardoyne, Belfast, and is an image of one of the wonderful walls in the school's philosophy room. My greatest thanks to Principal Kevin McArevey and to all the boys I shared thought provoking ideas with
If you are interested in receiving the first digital copies of this book upon release use the link below to sign up!
Register your interest: lnkd.in/eyk4MKCu
In the coming weeks I will have posts breaking down each aspect of the book, sneak peaks of sessions included as well as how it can be tailored to each educational context. The future of P4C is not just incorporating into the curriculum, but making a foundation part to daily educational situations
The book also details core principles of P4C, information to design your own sessions and stimuluses, tips on how to implement it in your institutions… and much more!
For example, it contains about core ideas surrounding each question, starters and warmup games, stimulus options, question generation guidance, support prompts, techniques for dialogue, reflection and ways in which the stimulus can be progressed and expanded outside of the initial inquiry.
Each session includes a core idea alongside information!
To improve accessibility into the practice of P4C, the book includes a 6 week sample session that you can use in each educational context.
More importantly, this book aims to allow facilitators and children to:
• ask better questions
• hold disagreement with care
• create confidence without competition
• treat uncertainty as a strength, not a weakness
At a time when young people are navigating AI, digital media, uncertainty, and moral complexity, philosophy offers something vital: the ability to think together, carefully and courageously.
The book aims to equip its readers to:
• facilitate high-quality philosophical dialogue with children and young people
• design powerful, age-appropriate philosophical stimuli
• work confidently in educational settings
• translate philosophy beyond the academy into real-world, every day impact
In a distracted, polarised world, teaching young people how to think together feels more urgent than ever.
Children today are navigating a world shaped by artificial intelligence, algorithmic media, social pressure, and unprecedented access to information but very few opportunities to think slowly, collectively, and carefully.
It’s built around a simple idea: children don’t need more answers, they need better spaces to think together.
📚✨Book Announcement✨📚
THINKING TOGETHER - Thinking in a Distracted Digital World
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on something that I deeply believe in and that has great personal significance: a Philosophy for Children Facilitation Guidebook.
Tis the season for unwrapping the odd, the delightful, and the deeply dialectical! Deck the Halls with Dialectics is an online event for speakers to deliver 30-minute presentations that are fun, silly, weird, or wonderfully festive, followed by a 15-minute Q&A!
Presentation dates: December 11th and 19th, 2025 at 7.00pm GMT.
Presentation Platform - Discord (see links below to join - BPPA membership not necessary for this event).
BPPA Discord Link: lnkd.in/gu9pAP94
Friday 19th of December Olive Fordham (Leeds Trinity University) with their presentation:
“Dear Santa,” Can We Ask for Christmas Gifts?
BPPA Discord Presentations - Deck the Halls with Dialectics
We have two wonderful presentations lined up! The first one is this Friday (12th at 7pm GMT).
Friday 12th of December - Kenneth Novis (University of Oxford) with their presentation:
Extraterrestrials and Ethics in Enlightenment France
If you have any further information email:
british.postgraduate.philosophy@gmail.com
Submission Guidelines
Submit a 150–250 word abstract describing your idea, tone, and format.
Include your name, contact info, and affiliation (if any).
Optional: indicate any preferred presentation dates.
Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025, at 11:59 PM.
We welcome all kinds of presentations: academic parodies, conceptual art pieces, performative lectures, or any joyful act of intellectual mischief. So wrap your best ideas in shiny paper and bring your dialectics, we’ll provide the tinsel.
Send us your 150–250 word abstract by Monday, November 17, 2025, at 11:59 PM. We’ll notify accepted presenters by November 21.
Submit here : forms.gle/v8g6jBFajusU...
Whether you’re reinterpreting Marx through Mariah Carey, exploring the semiotics of tinsel, or unveiling your theory of reindeer phenomenology, this is your chance to shine, or at least sparkle faintly in the winter gloom.
Tis the season for unwrapping the odd, the delightful, and the deeply dialectical! Deck the Halls with Dialectics invites 12 brave (or possibly foolish) speakers to deliver 30-minute presentations via Discord that are fun, silly, weird, or wonderfully festive, followed by a 15-minute Q&A.
Deck the Halls with Dialectics is coming this December with a series of delightfully absurd, possibly profound 30-minute online presentations (plus 15 minutes for audience mischief).
🎄✨ Calling all thinkers, tinkerers, and theorists of the weird! 🎄✨
British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA) Call for Abstracts – Deck the Halls with Dialectics!
A Celebration of Wacky, Weird, and Wonderfully Festive Ideas
I am delighted to announce that my abstract has been accepted for the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Annual 2025 Conference. Incredibly exciting to speak at it again this year! My presentation concerns the epistemic treatment of sex workers in the academy.
This was a wonderful idea from our President Jeff Hawley, congratulations on bringing the idea into fruition!