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My 7-year old daughter has asked what philosophy is. Can anybody give an explanation that she would understand?

Bonus question: while we were discussing this, she quoted the song, 'Rubbernecking': "Stop, look and listen baby, that's my philosophy". If you can shed light on this you are a legend.


May 5, 2006

Response from Peter Lipton on May 6, 2006
Sadly, I'm not familiar with 'Rubbernecking', but I guess that here 'my philosophy' just means something like 'my general approach to life'. As for explaining to your daughter what philosophy is in the sense we focus on here at AskPhilosophers, examples are better than definitions. For example, you might tell your daughter that in philosophy we think about questions like: 'How do you know that your teachers aren't really robots?
Response from Alexander George on May 6, 2006
You might also check out some of the ideas and further resources mentioned on the website Philosophy for Kids (you can find a link in the right column of this page).

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