This website offers material on philosophy, religion and ethics, notes for students and examples of my travel photography. Please come and take a lookaround!
If you are looking for free notes for students and teachers, start here...
or here for my range of books on philosophy, religion and ethics.
Price crash on key textbooks!
An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics / Ethical Theory
These two titles, which have provided a solid introduction to the subject for many students, are now out of print at Hodder Education, and rights have reverted to me. I shall therefore be making them available via Amazon through this website, as e-books and as new print editions.
Ethical Theory is due in Kindle format on February 28th - for only £1.99 / $2.99!
Pre-order you copy now by clicking here (for copies in the USA) or here (for copies in the UK).
There will also be a new e-book edition of Religion and Science.
An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics is due at the end of April and Religion and Science at the end of May.
Listen in, but watch out!
John Murray learning / Teach Yourself have produced a Philosophy Masterclass audiobook. Half of it is taken straight from my Philosophy for Life title - so if you've read the book, you might not want to get the audiobook.
However, it also offers material from Mark Vernon, and if you click on the sample on Amazon, you will hear most of the introduction to Philosophy for Life, beautifully read, for nothing!
Better still, the whole audiobook comes FREE if you try Audible free for 30 days!
In June 1916, two remarkable religious thinkers found themselves on opposite sides of the battle of Verdun; for both the experience was uniquely formative, but they responded to it very differently. It transformed their ideas of God, their careers and their lives.
A German Lutheran chaplain and a French Jesuit stretcher bearer, although separated by only a few hundred yards of mud and barbed wire, tried to cope with, and make sense of, that horror of death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. They – Paul Tillich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – reflect a century of thinking about religion, politics, humanism, existential angst and the global future.
It's the story of two men and their struggles with religious belief, but also of the whole way in which ideas about God and religion have been shaped and re-shaped during the last hundred years. Paperback @ £7.99 / $11.50 | Kindle ebook @ £1.99 / $2.99
Click here for more information and to order your copy.
Philosophy for Life
From the publisher's publicity...
Philosophy For Life is the essential introduction to the history of Western thought, covering key thinkers, both ancient and modern, and the major branches of philosophy. But more than that, it is a toolkit for developing new insights into the world we live in.
In Philosophy For Life you will develop your own critical and creative thinking by exploring the key ideas in Western Philosophy and the arguments that continue to shape our world.
More information on this title...
Its first review on Amazon (from a 'Top 500 Reviewer', unknown to me) concludes:
'Mel Thompson's clearly written and intellectually stimulating book is a superb introduction which should appeal to the general reader as well as students of philosophy.'
Celebrity endorsement of Persian translation of 'Philosophers Behaving Badly'!
The Iranian filmstar and TV host Mohammad Reza Golzar has recommended the Persian translation of Philosophers Behaving Badly on the TV show Barandeh Bash. Read more...
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Inspired by the memory of last year's summer in Britain, or prefer somewhere cooler? Click an image to see more of my travel photography...
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