Michael Picard, PhD
Member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada.
MSc. and a PhD. in Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge.
Author of This is Not a Book, now in print as Philosophy: Adventures in Thought and Reasoning, (2013). Quid Publishing, but co-published internationally with Allen & Unwin in Australia and NZ, by Barnes & Noble in the US, and by Continuum Books in the UK and elsewhere. Translated into French, Greek, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Estonian. Over 100,000 copies sold worldwide.
Co-author (with Gary Hayden) of Paradoxes (2013), a revised and expanded edition of This Book does Not Exist (2009). Quid Publishing. Multiple translations; global sales over 70,000.
Experienced facilitator of philosophical dialogue, having run over 600 sessions of public participatory philosophy.