The Public Life of the Mind

New interview! @CiaranCummins1 talks to @GraemeTiffany, whose pioneering work in Community Philosophy empowers people in any context to be active citizens and to generate ideas at a grassroots level. thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

New post! Great chat w/ @ahlstromvij on #philosophyinprisons, #publicphilosophy & academia. "I thought less and less about the supposed boundaries of philosophy and was simply liberated by the fact that, as a philosopher [...] you have a lot of latitude" thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

Busy times! 1) Interview with @ahlstromvij on #philosophyinprisons will be online this week!

New interview! @CiaranCummins1 spoke to Canadian PhD student Ty Branch to learn about her public philosophical experiences, including working as a philosopher-in-residence/field philosopher in an architecture firm and in a big data analytics organisation. thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

Very excited to be lining-up an interview with @GraemeTiffany to talk about his work in #communityphilosophy! Learn more about Graeme’s work here: graemetiffany.co.uk/

Check out our interview w/@PhilosophyUNB's Kilian Jorg! "'Failure is welcome'. [...] We always wanted to make philosophy less elitist and more accessible and for this I think it's important that it doesn't have this appearance of being a perfect thing" thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

New interview w/ Kilian Jorg of @PhilosophyUNB. Enjoy! thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk… "Philosophy is a struggle for bringing something into a concept, in a way, and it's very limiting if you have just one kind of form for it"

New interview w/ Kilian Jorg of @PhilosophyUNB. Enjoy! thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk… "Philosophy is a struggle for bringing something into a concept, in a way, and it's very limiting if you have just one kind of form for it"

Interview w/ Kilian Jorg of @PhilosophyUNB up soon! A snippet: "Music has these thousands of little sub-scenes which can make it so vivid and so alive, and I wanted to try and establish something like this for philosophy."

Wonderfully said @KieranSetiya (in the @LRB)

We spoke to Todd Altschuler to learn about his ‘Philosophical Investigation Agency’: “I was worried [...] I'd have to water philosophy down, or I would lose the intellectual freedom, but I've actually found the opposite. It really opens things up” thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

The Public Life of the Mind spoke to @ToddAltschuler to learn about his experience of engaging in consultation work outside of academia from a distinctly philosophical angle. A truly fascinating project! thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

The Public Life of the Mind spoke to @ToddAltschuler to learn about his experience of engaging in consultation work outside of academia from a distinctly philosophical angle. A truly fascinating and unique project! thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

“I've started to realise that actually the proper way to do philosophy and the things I love about philosophy are conversation" Read our new interview w/@LSEPhilosophy's Chloé de Canson on #philosophyinschools!

New discussion w/ @LSEPhilosophy PhD student Chloé de Canson abt doing #philosophyinschools with @HarrisFed & @philosophyfound. Enjoy! thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

Busy week! We'll be publishing a fascinating interview w/ Chloé de Canson abt doing #philosophyinschools and interviewing @ahlstromvij abt #philosophyinprisons and publicly-engaged research. In the meantime, do check out our interview w/ @carriejenkins! thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

Read our first interview now! A fascinating discussion with Carrie Jenkins. "The way I see it, the more voices that are included then the more perspectives are included then the better philosophy is going" thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…

The site's up! And what better way to kick things off than with the superb @carriejenkins thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk…