Question Everything 2023

FAIN: AH-295621-23

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA 01003-9242)
Ned Markosian (Project Director: May 2023 to May 2023)
Julia Jorati (Project Director: May 2023 to October 2024)
Ned Markosian (Co Project Director: May 2023 to October 2024)

“Question Everything” will provide 18 high school students from Springfield and Holyoke, Massachusetts with an opportunity to explore the exciting world of philosophy and receive mentorship. The summer program brings economically disadvantaged teenagers from these communities to the UMass Amherst campus for three weeks, where they get an authentic experience of college life, explore philosophical questions, and learn about the college application process. In 2023, the theme for Question Everything is Freedom and Liberty, and our participants will think deeply about what it means to be free, what it means to live freely in a democratic society, and what that freedom requires. Moreover, this theme reflects the values that the humanities are meant to safeguard and develop, and is extremely well-suited to a philosophy program, where freedom and liberty can be examined under a number of different guises: political, social, economic, psychological, and even metaphysical.