Author Archives: Brendan

…And Why Activists Who Protest The Olympics Are Missing The Point. I love the Olympics. I’m also a social justice and environmentalism campaigner – well, perhaps not as much now as I was in my 20’s. So I have to … Continue reading →

I got an interesting question from someone who backed my Kickstarter project: Upon further research, it seems that you have a spiritual (specifically Pagan) background. Does this affect the timbre of your textbook? I am certainly aware of “spiritual” people … Continue reading →

How Much Variety Is In Your World? Or, Never Mind Your IQ; what’s your DQ? I have around 1260 people on my Facebook list. So I see lot of “memes” every day. Memes are ideas, expressed in pictures and videos … Continue reading →

Good morning, I invite you to join the campaign for “Clear and Present Thinking” – it’s a campaign to create a high-quality textbook in philosophy and critical thinking, and make it available to everyone in the world for free. We’re … Continue reading →

People sometimes ask, since I am a philosophy professor, what do I teach? Well there are several answers. One is that I teach logic, argumentation, and the history of ideas. Another is that I teach the skills that help people … Continue reading →

As a writer, although I have the backing of an excellent international publisher, I still have to do most of my own publicity and marketing. I have two promotional “giveaways” already open (read about them here and here). Now let … Continue reading →

Interested in a free signed copy of “Circles of Meaning”, or “Fellwater”? Just click Like or Share on the book’s Facebook fan page. For every 1,000 “Likes” I will give away a copy of the book to someone selected at … Continue reading →

Anyone heard of the “Eco-Handprint”? I was first directed to this idea by a colleague of mine at work, who pointed me to this blog post by Jing Gomez, “Handprints”, posted on 23rd March 2012. This blog post was cited … Continue reading →

Who Is Carlo DiAngelo? If you can find out, you could win a copy of “Circles of Meaning, Labyrinths of Fear” by Brendan Myers! “Carlo DiAngelo” is a character from Myers’ new novel, “Fellwater“. But like several characters in the … Continue reading →

If you’ve seen The Wicker Man (1973), and then go to see its successor film The Wicker Tree (2011), you will probably leave feeling that the 1973 original is the better of the two films. Yet now that it’s been … Continue reading →