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| PRESS RELEASE 7th May 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (New e-commerce): Meaning of Life? Philosophy goes online Café Latte with a slice of Sartre? Could Aristotle run General Motors? Philosophy is going back on the street, into boardrooms, is available for consultation. Tom Morris is a premier league philosopher for companies in the Fortune 500. Lou Marinoff helped global power brokers philosophise at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year. Hundreds of 'Cafés Philos' proliferate in France and are growing rapidly elsewhere. This heritage profession has become hip. Now you can buy time, from a philosopher online, to your very own PC. Alex Howard, a UK-based member of the American Philosophical Practitioner Association's Key Consulting Team, with five acclaimed books and thirty years experience to draw on, has become the first APPA certified philosopher to provide a commercial, professional, service online. He offers user-friendly access to philosophies, ancient and modern, at $125 per hour (or local currency equivalent) using secure payment via WorldPay.com. 'I help clients match the pressing questions they are asking to the ideas and philosophers best able to assist them.' Alex's own workplace is itself an integration of old and new: his hi-tech approach is based in an 1850 townhouse blending modern Dell with antique Delft. Alex is the very first certified philosopher to move into e-commerce. He won't be the last. Philosophy is also going on holiday: you can join Alex face to face for a fortnight in September on the Greek island of Skyros. (http://www.skyros.com). With like-minded enthusiasts you can explore questions and concerns that matter to you. 'People come for fun, relaxation, privacy, intimacy and a chance to take themselves and others seriously. Each complements the other. Skyros is ideal.' Where better to philosophise than a Greek island? Alex has written extensively for the non-philosopher. His latest book was described by Dorothy Rowe, psychologist and best selling self-help author, as '..the clearest and wisest account of the major philosophers since Bertrand Russell's 'History of Western Philosophy'. It's not just for counsellors and therapists but for all of us.' . Novelist Fay Weldon, not a friend of therapists, added, 'If I were ever to go into therapy, I'd like the person treating me to have read this book.'. For a full tour, free materials and a free half hour trial: www.alexhoward.demon.co.uk Philosophyonline@alexhoward.demon.co.uk ENDS Feature Opportunity - two free offers for journalists: 1. Two hours free sample of philosophical counselling and consultancy online. This is a new service. The best way to explore and assess it is to sample it. Try it yourself or offer the option to a friend or colleague willing to report on it for you. Contact philosophyonline@alexhoward.demon.co.uk 2. Opportunities for Press trips to Skyros: Contact Yannis Andricopoulos: connect@skyros.com For more information, contact: Alex Howard, Philosophy Online, 8 Winchester Terrace, Summerhill Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 6EH Tel/Fax. 0191 232 5530 Philosophyonline@alexhoward.demon.co.uk www.alexhoward.demon.co.uk Photo available Suggested interview questions: Q. What is philosophy? A. 'It's what you end up doing if you go on asking questions about the basis of previous answers. We all need to take stock from time to time, whether at home or at work.' Q. We can't question everything all the time? Surely nothing would ever get done if we did? A. 'Quite right. The best philosophers have always been wise about knowing when to act and when to reflect. This is one of the most important balancing acts that we all have to learn.' Q. What does philosophy offer counsellors, consultants and clients? A. 'A larger knowledge base and broader, deeper intellectual foundations. We've seen a triumph of technology, but I doubt that we're wiser than our great grandparents. We travel faster and further, we're a mouse-click away from almost anyone. But do we connect so well? Are we any more on top of the urgent or in sight of the important? Q. How well does philosophy work online? A. 'It helps you reflect on what you want to say and rediscover the value of letters and journal keeping. Above all, email is essential when you don't have a philosopher in your own backyard! Obviously, it cannot be a substitute for face to face contact.' Background materials: 1. he hath witnessed that, of all curses which cleave to man, ill counsel is the sovereign curse. (Sophocles, c 496 - c 406 BC, Antigone) 2. Philosophical counselling began in the USA with Paul Sharkey, Pierre Grimes, and J. Michael Russell in the 1970s. Now a rapidly growing band of market-place philosophers provide professional counselling, coaching and consultancy services that integrate the best of new and old. 3. Alex's latest book, Philosophy for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to Postmodernism (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2000) has just been nominated for the MIND Book of the Year Competition 2001. 4. Alex's web-site includes reviews from Personnel Today, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry Journal, British Medical Journal, Prospect Magazine for Financial Services, the European Journal of Psychotherapy, among many other testimonies from individuals & organisations.
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