Michaël Picard

Michael Picard holds an MSc and a PhD in philosophy from MIT. He has taught cognitive science, psychology, management, leadership, philosophy and sustainability. Now he teaches philosophy at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada. Picard founded Café Philosophy in Victoria, Canada, facilitating it weekly for twelve years; he remains a facilitator with SFU's Philosophers' Café program. He is also creator of Philosophy Sports (www.philosophy-sports.com), including the board game, Tug of Logic, now an app. Picard is author of How to Play Philosophy and This is Not a Book, as well as co-author of Paradoxes: From Illusions to Infinity. His translations of two books by Gerd Achenbach, Philosophical Praxis and On Right in Wrong, are forthcoming under Hamilton at Rowman & Littlefield. His own philosophical praxis is found at www.philosophical-coaching.com.