About the Toolbox
Welcome to The Philosophy Toolbox, a dynamic web resource for teachers and students created by volunteers interested in promoting philosophy in the schools. Our current focus is at the high school level but the site will be expanded to include sections on elementary and middle school levels in 2008-2009. We welcome advice, contributions, and volunteers who will help this website become a virtual philosophy community for teachers and students. The “Electronic Agora” has come of age!
The Philosophy Toolbox is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational effort to help teachers nurture thoughtful philosophical dialogue amongst their high school students. The focus of content will be the traditional issues of philosophy, and our mission is to help our young people become rational, thoughtful, caring members of our society.
The Philosophy Toolbox is co-sponsored by The American Philosophical Association Committee on Pre-College Philosophy, and the North American High School Philosophers Association.
A big thank you goes to the work team that put together this web site.
The Philosophy Toolbox work team:
Hugh Taft-Morales hugh_taft-morales@eburke.org
Wendy Turgeon turgeon@optonline.net
Rafael Rondon rafaelrondon@msn.com
John McGuinness McGuinnessJ@nps.k12.ma.us
Katina Saunders Web designer
Chris Caputo Web consultant
Bill Brown Graphics
Thanks to all those who support our work and contributed valuable content, especially Michael Kelly, Jim Kasmareck, Jim Kelly, Francis J. Breslin. Thanks to Carl Harper, Megan Laverty, and Thomas Doyle for suggestions to improve the site.
And finally, thanks to authors and publishers of The Philosopher’s Toolkit, by Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl, for both their flexibility in allowing us to use a similar name, and for producing an excellent resource in itself, great for supplementing traditional texts. For more information about The Philosopher’s Toolkit see http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631228748