Problematising, conceptualising and arguing: Michel Tozzi’s proposal to learn to philosophize

Abstract

Michel Tozzi proposes learning to philosophise through three processes: problematising, conceptualising and argueing, which combined with philosophical dialogue and writing, and philosophical reading, would provide both students and people in general with philosophical competence. Only a little part of Tozzi’s work has been translated into Catalan and we can only find one book and very few articles in Castilian/Spanish. In this project we will analyse the book Penser par soi-même. Initiation à la philosophie and some of Tozzi’s articles, together with some others about his proposal, in order to try to systematise this «model» of philosophising method and transfer it to the Philosophy classroom at High School, exemplifying it with a unit of the first year.

Keywords: Tozzi, problematising, conceptualising, argueing, philosophical competence, learn to philosophise.