Philosophy: A Crash Course

Zara Bain has taught philosophy in schools, universities and colleges, and is currently researching the politics and epistemology of ignorance with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has been published in Ethics and Education, Global Justice and The Philosophers' Magazine blog. In her spare time, she enjoys testing the theory that anything can be made to look like Nietzsche by adding a handlebar moustache and a pompadour to it. Adam Ferner has worked in academic philosophy in France and the UK, as well as in schools, youth centres and other alternative learning spaces. He has written three books - Organisms and Personal Identity (Routledge, 2016), Think Differently (White Lion Publishing, 2018) and, with Nadia Mehdi and Zara Bain, Crash Course: Philosophy (Ivy, 2019) - and has been published widely in philosophical and popular journals. Adam is an associate editor of the Forum's Essays, and a member of the Changelings, a North London fiction collaboration.Nadia Mehdi works broadly within the traditions of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. She teaches at both the university and schools level with the University of Sheffield in the UK. Her current research focuses on oppression and resistance at our cultural peripheries and is funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.