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Editorial

Philosophy For Children

by David Boersema

In the summer of 1987 I participated in the VIII International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, which was being held in Moscow (still in the USSR at the time). At the hotel where I stayed, the receptionist asked what brought me there. I answered that I was an academic philosopher and was there for a conference. She looked agog and remarked, “You are a philosopher? I thought philosophers were all old men with gray hair.”

She obviously had been reading Plato.

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