RT @DrElizabethMac1: Massive fan of the @the_if_man, but I need to shout more about the brilliant @0davidbirch0 & his #Provocations book -….

What do you want to know?.

Publication day!!. Navigating the Moral Maze: A Teaching Guide to the Problems of Life, Death, Freedom and Justice is out now. @routledgebooks . A secondary school resource, it will help sharpen pupils' thinking on urgent issues such as,. - Borders.- Reproduction .- Poverty.- War

RT @philosophersmag: Are Philosophers Monsters?. David Birch looks at the interface between philosophy and monstrosity. .

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

RT @APISinc: Have you written a philosophy book? Check out our NEW list of recommended reads and see if your book has made the list. @phil….

Superb perception puzzle in Roy Sorensen's Seeing Dark Things. From the viewer's perspective Near and Far look the same size. If both bodies were frontlit, we'd say we don't see Far. But given they are backlit, no light is actually striking Near. So what do we see, Near or Far?

Poetry is often a great catalyst and stimulus for philosophical thought and discussion, so here are four poems on the nature of the self -

All ideals are dangerous, because they debase and stigmatise actuality. - Nietzsche, The Will to Power.

Poetry is often a great catalyst and stimulus for philosophical thought and discussion, so here are four poems on the nature of happiness -

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party. - John Keats.

In his essay 'Quantifier Variance and Realism', Eli Hirsch presents a 'philosophical experiment' which works wonderfully as a #P4C stimulus: 'Look at your hand while you are clenching it, and ask yourself whether some object called a fist has come into existence.' ✊.

What can The Little Mermaid and The Lion King tell us about two fundamentally different ways of being in the world? A pretty fatuous question, but also rather interesting. My blog for @philosophyfound .

Remember your first time encountering Zeno's paradoxes?

'It is/ was. ' dichotomies offer a clear way of exploring the connection between what a thing does & what it is (its ergon & essence). Simply present the pics & ask which is correct - .● It is/ was a tree. ● It is/ was a shark. ● It is/ was a car. ● It is/ was a brain.

Lovely to see Befuddled in the top 10 children's books on philosophy 🙂

Out today! Befuddled: The Lives & Legends of Ancient Philosophers. From Zeno to Zhuangzi, from wondrous births to fetid deaths, from metaphysics to ethics - 'a stimulating and very enjoyable romp' @stephenlaw60, a book 'to educate and enchant in equal measure', @AndyWPhilosophy.

RT @HTLGIFestival: "One’s philosophical journey can start at a young age," tells us David Birch in his piece for @philosophyfound, a previe….

RT @philosophyfound: Our philosopher David birch tells us about the philosophy enquiry called 'Interaction' that he will be running with ch….

The first review of Befuddled. An 'entertaining' book of 'colorful anecdotes' and 'heady philosophical concepts'.