The “Philosophical Objects” Project: Practical Philosophy Through Experimental Research Pathways

Elena THEODOROPOULOU

doi:10.24193/subbphil.2025.1.04

Authors

Elena THEODOROPOULOU Department of Preschool Education Sciences and Educational Design (D.P.E.S.E.D.), University of the Aegean. Directress of the “Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy” (L.R.P.Ph.), https://practphilab.aegean.gr/. Email: theod@rhodes.aegean.gr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-2377

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2025.1.04

Keywords:

“Philosophical Objects” (PhO), object, practical philosophy, experimental concept, research

Abstract

The «Philosophical Objects» (PhOs) project concerns the organization of a research procedure where the basic paradoxical problem refers to the possibility of determining an object as philosophical. Through this effort, it is not only a philosophy of object that is at stake but also a conception about the determination itself of philosophical in function of its possible relation to the object. Moreover, it is progressively disclosed how such a project could be recognized as genuinely related to practical philosophy if the latter is interested in exploring the modes through which philosophy can encounter nonphilosophical ways of thinking and acting by thus revealing its practical potency and its experimental character.

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