My (evolving) philosophy of life, and why it may help you too

[image: Thales of Miletus, left, and Socrates of Athens, right, representing the two ways of doing philosophy]

I practice philosophy in two very different ways. On the one hand, I’m a professional, academic philosopher. I have a PhD in the field and write very technical articles on philosophy of science (here is a complete list), aimed at a narrow audience of similarly trained colleagues. There is nothing unusual about this, it’s just what academics, not only philosophers, do.