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This is not the way things have to be.

— Sallye Bell Davis


Another Millennium... Another Big Chance!

— Tom Birch

Welcome to a website featuring a free read of my newest book, Philosophy’s Big Chance: Reimagining the Possibilities of a World on Edge. Alongside is “The Works!” – a jamboree of links or texts for many of my other writings, deepening and complementing the theme of Big Chance/Big Change. Here too you can find the full text of Jobs for Philosophers – my dark-horse literary venture in “Philosophy as it could be”. Later sections introduce “teaching as the art of staging” – an emboldening alternative pedagogy – and offer also a Lexicon and Contact/Appearance information.

I am honored by your visit, and hope that what you find here is at least a little of that “Space and Air in the mind” with which I join William James in so hopefully identifying philo-sophia – the love of wisdom – itself.

Anthony Weston

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    • Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies Emeritus, Elon University
    • Winner of Elon University’s highest teaching and scholarship awards
    • Author of best-selling and award winning textbooks with Hackett and Oxford, published widely in pedagogy, social change, and environmental studies (Temple, New Society, SUNY)
    • Co-founder, Common Ground Ecovillage
    • My publication list
    • Wikipedia page about me

It may be useful to know that I continue to work on this website and rewrite or revise some of the contents.