Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Journal / Book Title
Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disicplines
Abstract
Not all communities of inquiry are communities of philosophical inquiry. Still, there is something special and intrinsic about philosophy when it comes to the community of inquiry. Think of Matthew Lipman's oft-repeated claim that philosophy is the discipline that teaches children to think in the disciplines. And remember that one of his (and Dewey's) greatest insights was that children could be members of a community of inquiry. I should like to put these ideas together in the following way: irrespective of whether the inquiry engaged in by a community is philosophical, the community itself is philosophical. In short, every community of inquiry is a philosophical community of inquiry. What is special about philosophy is that it can show children what it means to inquire.
DOI
https://doi-org.ezproxy.montclair.edu/10.5840/inquiryctnews199717121
Book Publisher
Montclair State University
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
2153-9871
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Splitter, Laurance J., "(1997) Some Reflections on Inquiry, Community and Philosophy" (1997). Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter. 10.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc-lsplitter/10
Published Citation
Splitter, Laurance J. (1997) Some Reflections on Inquiry, Community and Philosophy. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disicplines 17(1): 29-39.