ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with a short introduction to the field of philosophical practice, before it analyses and discusses central approaches or ways of philosophising in this field. Limited to dialogical philosophising in groups, the approaches included are Matthew Lipman’s philosophy for children (P4C) approach, Oscar Brenifier’s Thinking dialogue approach, Leonard Nelson’s, Gustav Heckman’s and Finn Thorbjørn Hansen’s Socratic dialogue approaches, Michael Noah Weiss’ guided imagery approach and finally Ran Lahav’s contemplative philosophising approach. The approaches are mapped within the Dialogos six-dimensional map for wisdom oriented pedagogy. The notions reflection and sensibility are introduced. Reflective language is argued to correspond to the critical-analytical dimension in the map of wisdom oriented pedagogy, while sensibility is argued to imply understanding of phenomena as first person experiences, for instance in situations and contexts where also understanding of the experience of other people is important. The analysis reveals that the communicative-relational wisdom dimension oriented towards profound “heart to heart encounters” that can combat isolation, loneliness, and separation, is the dimension least developed in the analysed approaches. This dimension is highlighted as essential to philosophising the Dialogos way.
