Pete

"I began my philosophical journey playing Dungeons & Dragons in the 80s (when I looked like one of the characters from Stranger Things) and playing in a thrash metal band called “Suspiria” (yes, I looked like Eddie!)! Little did I know then that these two interests would take me down into tunnels and passages that would eventually lead to my becoming a 'philosophical Dungeon Master' many years later. Along the way, I developed a way of doing philosophy in schools (called PhiE or Philosophical Enquiry), which I have written about in many books including The If Machine (Bloomsbury 2010, 2019), The Philosophy Shop (Crown House 2012) and Corrupting Youth (Rowman and Littlefield 2021), and I started what would eventually become the award-winning charity, The Philosophy Foundation. I have been doing philosophy in schools since 2002 in which time I have won awards for my books, become a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London, and - together with Jason Buckley - had my stories turned into a BAFTA-nominated film (What Makes Me Me?), trained the school at the centre of the film Young Plato, been the president of SOPHIA (the European organisation for promoting philosophy in schools) and eventually I've gone freelance. And now, things have turned full circle, because, among many other things, I run Dungeons & Dragons after-school clubs! The 'among many other things' include working in schools, music and guitar teaching, philosophical counselling and coaching, training in the facilitation of philosophical enquiry in schools and the workplace, and educational consultation. And now I am very happy and honoured to be a part of the team at Education Without"