Born in 1949, Peter B. Raabe received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for his research in Philosophical Counseling. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. For twenty-five years he taught a variety of philosophy courses including philosophy…

Anders Lindseth (1946) is in Norway Pro­fessor Emeritus for practical phi­loso­phy at the Centre for Practical Knowledge, Nord University. He has been teacher of philosophy at the Universities of Oslo and Tromsø, and professor at the De­partment for Health Care Research, Fa­culty of Medicine, Univer­sity of Tromsø. He has been guest professor for prac­ti­cal know­ledge…

William Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and professor of philosophy at King’s College in Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books with Seinfeld and Philosophy (Open Court, 2000). Many other volumes followed. Currently he is the general editor of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Irwin is…

Ida Jongsma: was in 1983 the co-founder of the Dutch Philosophical Counseling movement in the Netherlands. After her M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam she started in 1989 the Dutch Association for Philosophical Practice with colleagues. In 1988 Hotel de Filosoof (The Philosopher Hotel) was opened in Amsterdam with Ida Jongsma as co-owner….

Tom Morris is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, the recipient of a double PhD from Yale University, and holds honorary doctorates in recognition for his public work. After a first career at Notre Dame, he went on to become a public philosopher, authoring so far over 32 published books, including national bestsellers, while bringing…

Greg Sadler is the president of ReasonIO, adjunct professor of philosophy and humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and the co-host of the Wisdom for Life radio show. His popular YouTube channel has nearly 3,000 videos, and has drawn 14 million total views. He is a member of the Modern Stoicism team,…

Vaughana Feary PhD received her doctorate from the University of Arizona. Her original AOS was Ethics, Social/ Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. She often spent extended periods in Europe, Asia, and Africa, with New Orleans as home base, where she taught Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Southern University during the turbulent early seventies when…

George Hole is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at Buffalo State College and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department. His poems have been published in Cimmaron Review, Rapport, Stone Drum, Earth’s Daughters, and Sugar Mule, as well as the Buffalo News. He is the author of Thinking Well about What Matters (out of print)…

Ibrahim Ozdemir, PhD I am a professor of philosophy at Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I was the Founding President of Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep (2010-2014). Presently, I am a visiting professor at Clark University, Worcester, MA. I was a member of the drafting team…

Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at CUNY/Kingsborough, a VP of APPA, an APPA-certified Philosopher Counselor, trained as a Gestalt therapist, a certified life coach and CBT practitioner, and a multiple-decades practitioner and instructor of yoga and meditation. His most recent publication is the edited collection, The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022)….

Lydia Amir is a French-Israeli professor of philosophy, currently teaching in the department of Philosophy at Tufts University and at graduate programs of Philosophy in Romania and Mexico. She also serves as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, China. Amir has…

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His books include How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books), A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control (The Experiment, with Greg Lopez), and…

Pierre is the first philosophical counselor in the West. He has pioneered and practiced Socratic Midwifery in Southern California since the 1960s. Pierre founded both Opening Mind Academy and the Noetic Society, and is a Director of the APPA. Alan Watts called Pierre “a true Jnana Yogi”. Now 98 years of age, Pierre is a…