The SFCP aims to promote the Critical Philosophy through the linked activities of education and scholarship.

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Books

Ethics and Socratic Dialogue in Civil Society 

Edited by Patricia Shipley and Heidi Mason, published by LIT Verlag (Munster) 2004

What is the role of civil society in a modern democracy? How can we build a common identity in today’s fragmented societies? What can be done to counteract the growing disillusionment with representative forms of government and diminishing participation in formal political systems? How might dialogue be used as a tool to foster understanding both within and between nations and cultures? 

This volume represents a concerted attempt to think through the difficult and urgent issues facing civil society today. It considers the potential role of dialogue, especially modern Socratic Dialogue, to help to answer some of the ethical questions and issues arising in civil society. 

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Enquiring Minds - Socratic Dialogue in Education, published (2004) jointly by Trentham Books, SFCP and PPA is also out now at £18.99. Find out more.   Order Now. Read the introduction online

The society previously published Hijatus by Nermina Kurspahic. Nermina Kurspahic lives and works in an apartment in the heart of Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia- Herzegovina. Her essays concern the phenomenon of illness, the army as an institution and war games, about the place of women in a male world, the Balkan policy of half life and cover a multitude of themes. Hijatus or Hiatus in the title refers to the frustrating way speech can desert us, at the moment we most need it to protest, when faced with war and terrible cruelty. This has a particular resonance in her case as soon after writing these essays war broke out in the Balkans confirming in the most horrific way many of her predictions. Read an extract from the book's section  'Woman in a mans world'.

Occasional Working Papers in Ethics and the Critical Philosophy.

Volume 1 (1988)

This discussed ethical standards in the public and private sectors in the UK; the place of ethics in the new information technology; the future of the Critical Philosophy and the link between it and the Socratic Dialogue. Finally, Vol. 1 carried an English translation of Nelson`s essay on the Socratic Method.

Volume 2 (2000). Contributions include

 

	Author	Title
1	Peter Rickman	Kant Today
2	Susie Miller	Critical Philosophy as a demand for Resistance against National Socialism
3	Nermina Kurspahic	Woman in a Man's World
4	Patricia Shipley and Fernando Leal	The Active Self; beyond Dualism
5	Michael Chase	Pierre Hadot on Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life
6	Fernando Leal	The Relation between Value Conflicts and the Socratic Dialogue
7	Fernando Leal and Rene Saran	A Dialogue on the Socratic Dialogue

  Volume 3 (2004)

CONTENTS

Part One: History

‘The Labour Party and the SPD: British and German Democratic Socialism – Brothers in Arms or at Arms?’

Lawrence Black

 Susie Miller in conversation with Patricia Shipley

 ‘The Contributions of Grete Henry-Hermann to the Philosophy of Physics’ Léna Soler

Part Two: Socratic Dialogue

• ‘A Dialogue on the Socratic Dialogue – Act 2’ Fernando Leal and Rene Saran

•  ‘A Critique of the Socratic Dialogue’

• i. ‘Socratic Dialogue: A Comment from a Teacher of Philosophy’ Peter Rickman

• ii. ‘The Uses and Abuses of Socratic Dialogue’ Fernando Leal

• iii. ‘Between Ourselves or Across Cultures? The Question of Intercultural Dialogue’ Heidi Mason

• iv. ‘Socratic Dialogue: A Psychologist’s Perspective’ Patricia Shipley

Part Three: Reviews

• Mathematische Naturphilosophie in der Grundlagendiskussion: Jakob Friedrich Fries und die Wissenschaften by Kay Herrmann,

• Ethischer Kritizismus: Untersuchungen zu Leonard Nelsons “Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft”und ihren philosophischen Kontexten by Andreas Brandt - Fernando Leal “in English”

•  Hijatus by Nermina Kurspahic - Heidi Mason

• Socratic Citizenship by Dana Villa- Patricia Shipley

•   Ethics And Socratic Dialogue In Civil Society edited by Patricia Shipley and Heidi Mason -Chris Taylor

•   Enquiring Minds: Socratic Dialogue In Education edited by Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser Finn Thorbjørn Hansen

Part Four: News and Reports

• ‘The Socratic Approach to Learning and Teaching: A Pilot Training Course for Prospective Facilitators’ - Paul Penny

• ‘PPA/SFCP Conference Berlin, July 2004: Reinventing European Civil Society: Learning from each other’ - Barbara Neisser and Rene Saran

•  ‘Socratic Dialogues in Lithuania and Bulgaria’ -Rene Saran

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