MIT-trained philosopher, Michael Picard is founder of Cafe Philosophy, a twelve-year series of public participatory philosophy events, and a facilitator with Simon Fraser University’s Philosophers’ Cafe program. Author of This is Not a Book (now in print as Philosophy: Adventures in the Thought and Reasoning), Picard has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, management, leadership, economics and sustainability, as well as philosophy, which he currently teaches at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada. Creator of Philosophy Sports, Picard is also inventor of the board game, Tug of Logic.