The Thinkies

In these stories for children you will meet the Thinkies, characters that take philosophy so seriously (and the sense of wonder that comes with it), so very seriously that they make everything appear fun and poetic at the same time.   Their world is full of small surprises that make them smile first – and then ponder.   There's Mrs. Boom and Mr. Beem who wonder why they can't find things. There's Mr. Bamm who wants to know if green is green or some other color. There Tic and Tac who wonder who is to blame for the broken vase.   Things puzzle them all such as the purpose of hats and umbrellas, the nature of shadows, and what is real and unreal, how things change and are possible and impossible, what is infinity and is there a place where squares can be round and was there a time when there wasn't any time and people didn't grow old?     Two philosophers Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi have shed the adult limitations of the world around them cluttered with directions, codes, and preconceived ideas; everything that tames the spark of children's natural imagination and dulls their philosophical instincts. They have invented a world,  in which the questions are more important than the answers, a world filled with delightful characters, that like children are full of wonder and excitement.   The Thinkies is a book of philosophy for children so they can think for themselves and grow with imagination and confidence.

Roberto Casati

Roberto Casati (Born Nov 9, 1961, Milan, Italy, 1961) is a tenured senior researcher with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-EHESS-ENS) where he as been since 1994. Based in Paris, France, he has worked on various research projects in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, and has taught or been a research fellow at several universities, among which the State University of New York at Buffalo and Dartmouth College. 

Achille Varsi

Achille C. Varzi (born May 8, 1958, Galliate, Italy) is an Italian-born philosopher. He teaches at Columbia University, where he has been a member of the philosophy faculty since 1995. Varzi has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic (mainly vagueness, supervaluationism, paraconsistency, formal semantics) and metaphysics (mainly mereology and mereotopology, causation, events, and issues relating to identity and persistence through time).