id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
atpp-1096	Gardner, Susan	Perceiving "The Philosophical Child": A Guide for the Perplexed: A Review of Jana Mohr Lone's The Philosophical Child	2012	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2210	97	64	Susan T. Gardner The Philosophical Child Jana Mohr Lone Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Lanham, Maryland and United Kingdom 147 Pages Hardcover $26.22 Though Jana Mohr Lone (2012) refers to children’s striving to wonder, to question, to figure out how the world works and where they fit as the “philosophical self,” like its parent discipline, it could be argued that the philosophical self is actually the “parent self,”—the wellspring of all the other aspects of personhood that we traditionally parse out, e.g., the intellectual, moral, social, and emotional selves (p. 5). Thus, though Mohr Lone says that the subject of her book is to assist parents in support- ing the development of children’s philosophical selves (p. 7), that claim may mask the gift that this lovely book can bring to the parent-child relationship if it is interpreted as helping children to become “smarty pants” in the sense of acquiring esoteric skills to excel in the ivory-tower (albeit children-oriented) discipline of academic philosophy.	cache/atpp-1096.pdf	txt/atpp-1096.txt