Mitch Whitehead

Itinerant philosopher, sci-fi and fantasy nerd, panettone enthusiast.

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

Really excited to have finished the Museum on Wheels handbook I've been working on at @newschoolnorway - an amazing project with the Museum of Educational History in Lithuania, taking a disused bus and turning it into a museum for underserved communities!

[TPM: The Philosophers Magazine @philosophersmag]

Where is philosophy? This is not a typo. What is philosophy is a common question. But rarely do we wonder where it is, physically speaking. Imagine a philosopher at work. Where does this scene take place?--David Kishik

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

@ericabuist @chewytheleftie 100% it is teachers. Worked to the bone, barely holding on to sanity, & months of restrained *everything* that they've had to keep in check. Suddenly everything finishes, kids f*off, holidays rush into view. Then add booze. It's freshers week with work place grievances.

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

@Ljiljana1972 @phl43 @ewinsberg @sudha_lakshmi @hazardppp Am en route to Oslo from Belgrade via Frankfurt. For us Sputniks it's like a multiverse hopping sci-fi dystopia penned by Kafka.

[Micro Flash Fiction📖 @MicroFlashFic]

In 1916, Hans Becker died during the first nationwide daylight savings time. A lawyer in life, he successfully petitioned Heaven for his lost hour. Now anyone who dies between springing forward and falling back gets to relive their favorite hour of life to make up the difference.

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

@eschwitz You could teach a pretty robust philosophy course drawing only from Calvin and Hobbes cartoons I would think. Have often used them in class as stimuli for discussion.

[TPM Philosophy Quote @tpmquote]

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions are answered, the problems of our life have not even begun to be touched.--Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

@JoWolffBSG 4 years remaining in this chapter of life...

[Micro Flash Fiction📖 @MicroFlashFic]

"Talent is like a rope. It isn't one thing; it's a bundle of things woven together. The more elements you have, the stronger the bundle. But even one strand can be useful in the right circumstance. And more importantly, if you have one, you have something to braid a rope around."

[Newschool @newschoolnorway]

Due to late cancellations, we have a limited number of places available on our Cross-Disciplinary Teaching course, running 23-25 November. The course is a hands-on exploration of cross-disciplinary teaching for 21st-century educators. Please RT! https://t.co/Kr8OgyH59e

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

@ericabuist

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Was reading an old Harold Bloom book where he wrote that he thought a Shakespearean reading of Freud was much more elucidating than a Freudian reading of Shakespeare, and my mind remains blown several days later.

[TPM Philosophy Quote @tpmquote]

For Wittgenstein, he [Francis Spufford] remarks, there was a point at which language failed. For C. S. Lewis, on the other hand, this was the point at which it became interesting: 'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must write children's books.'--Jane Shilling

[Mitch Whitehead @twitamitch]

@JoWolffBSG It makes me think of that great 'Hwaet!" at the beginning of Beowulf. Like a, "Right!" Or "Listen up!"

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

In the new Matrix movie the Keanu Reeves character takes the blue pill, becomes a tenured philosophy professor. and discovers how deep the rabbit hole *really* goes.

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Philosophy: Verso Student Reading.

Featuring Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson, Theodor Adorno, Chantal Mouffe and more; all 40% off until the end of September!

https://t.co/O2J1lHGjIo

[Newschool @newschoolnorway]

A crucial development that we should all be looking to, even in research fields beyond STEM. "...an ethical research culture and community with principles such as promoting open access data, science education, as well as gender equality in research."

#21stcenturyeducation

[British Philosophical Association @BritishPhiloso1]

New from the British Philosophical Association: we want to kick off the new term by building a UK network of Philosophy school teachers.

Details here, please circulate widely and encourage any teachers you might know to get in touch:

https://t.co/IeUQ53BHVV

[Newschool @newschoolnorway]

Modelling is a big part of modern teaching - modelling behaviour, modelling skills, modelling aptitudes. But should we model how to be a practitioner too? Does the history teacher model being an historian? The art teacher, being an artist? Bring students into that community!