I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of Eye –
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
Emily Dickinson
August Birthdays
August 6 Nicolas Malebranche (French, born 1638)
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of Eye –
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
Emily Dickinson
August Birthdays
August 6 Nicolas Malebranche (French, born 1638)
August 7 Nelson Goodman (American, born 1906)
August 10 Jean-Francois Lyotard (French, born 1924)
August 16 Catherine Trotter Cockburne (British, born 1679)
August 19 Gilbert Ryle (British, born 1900)
August 20 Paul Tillich (German-American, born 1886)
August 22 Max Scheler (German, born 1874)
August 23 Jakob Friedrich Fries (German, born 1773)
August 25 Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann (German, born 1775) and Johann Gottfried von Herder (German, born 1744)
August 27 Johann Georg Hamann (German, born 1730) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German, born 1770)
August 29 John Locke (British, born 1632)
Jana Mohr Lone is the director and founder of the University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children, an academic research center dedicated to research and practice in philosophy for children and philosophy of childhood, and she is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. Jana is the author of Seen and Not Heard (2021) and The Philosophical Child (2012). She co-authored the textbook Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialogue in Schools (2016) and co-edited the collection of essays Philosophy and Education: Introducing Philosophy to Young People (2012). Since 1995 she has taught philosophy in classrooms from preschool to college and beyond. A frequent writer and speaker about precollege philosophy, Jana is the founding president of PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People. Follow her on Twitter: @JanaMohrLone