Curriculum Vitae

1964—69	University College School (UCS) Hampstead, London www.ucs.org.uk
1972—76	Ist Class BA Honours Philosophy Birkbeck College, University of London President of the Birkbeck Philosophy Society 1974—75 Joad Prize for outstanding performance in Finals
1976—82	B.Phil and D.Phil Philosophy at University College, Oxford Thesis The Metaphysics of Meaning (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Thesis supervisor: John McDowell Examiners: P.F. Strawson, Paul Snowdon
1982—88	Research in Ethics and Metaphysics (published as Naive Metaphysics: a Theory of Subjective and Objective Worlds Ashgate 1994)
1988—2004	Philosophy tutor for the Workers Educational Association, South Yorkshire District, Sheffield Central Branch
1991—95	Philosophy tutor/ lecturer at Sheffield University and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
1994	Naive Metaphysics: a Theory of Subjective and Objective Worlds (292 pp.) First published in the Avebury Series in Philosophy, Ashgate Published on Amazon 2016 (Amazon US, Amazon UK)
1995—2020	Pathways to Philosophy Distance Learning Programme Official launch date: 11th October 1995
1995—1997	Six Pathways to Philosophy The Possible World Machine (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Searching for the Soul (Amazon US, Amazon UK) The First Philosophers (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Language and the World (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Reason, Values and Conduct (Amazon US, Amazon UK) The Ultimate Nature of Things (Amazon US, Amazon UK)
1997	Pathways to Philosophy web site Launched: August 1997 Original URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ptpdlp/
1996—2002	Director of Studies, Philosophical Society of England http://www.philsoceng.uk
1999—	Moderator of 'Ask a Philosopher' http://askaphilosopher.org
2001—2019	Chief Editor of Philosophy Pathways ISSN 2043-0728 http://klempner.freeshell.org/newsletter/
2002	Founder member of the International Society for Philosophers http://isfp.sdf.org
2002—2020	Director of Studies, International Society for Philosophers http://isfp.sdf.org
2003—2019	Chief Editor of Philosophy for Business ISSN 2043-0736 http://businessphilosophy.co.uk
Amazon books	The Metaphysics of Meaning (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Naive Metaphysics: a theory of subjective and objective worlds (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Philosophy Q and A (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Ethical Dilemmas: a primer for decision makers (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Philosophizer (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Philosophizer (Black Edition) (Amazon US, Amazon UK) Philosophizer's Bible (Amazon US, Amazon UK) I Might Not Have Existed But Someone Exactly Like Me Might Have Existed In My Place: the idiotic conundrum (Amazon US, Amazon UK) A Better Ray Gun and Other Tales: twenty sci-fi stories with a philosophical twist (Amazon US, Amazon UK) (See Amazon.com Author Page for Geoffrey V. Klempner)
Social Media	Geoffrey Klempner has a Public Figure page on Facebook, created in 2012 by Eric George. As of August 2019, Dr Klempner is one of the Admins for this page. If you have any questions for Dr Klempner, philosophical or otherwise. please post them at www.facebook.com/geoffreyklempner.
YouTube videos	GVKlempner Channel youtube.com/user/GVKlempner Perils of a Dilettante p0I_XrTkNzQ Is THAT all there is? V5AbtV3ocQc Embracing the Question: the Philosophizer Trilogy youtu.be/Ow8-cu4zGgY Living in the Dark youtu.be/8W17F1lpPWM I Am The Walrus and Philosophy youtu.be/TK5LsVzyeus What is a Philosophizer? youtu.be/SfRTKunaH_Y Philosophy and Science Fiction youtu.be/_94C64JsYu8 The Ultimate Question youtu.be/GVKihRumWI4 The ideology of materialism youtu.be/Zw9wWmiWd-4 Descartes and the soul youtu.be/O8ujiqvjk9Q Why am I here? (Revisited) youtu.be/eRAyc8He3DM Philosophizer's Bible Fool's hope youtu.be/FgYVk8U9Brw Salvation youtu.be/N345Cta5o2k Starship made of words youtu.be/_KyGuwaF1gY Epiphany youtu.be/8b21YSUVuJY Vengeful ghosts youtu.be/lMbUWL3nKXk Rubber bands youtu.be/5L0PfJqbte4 Punch bag youtu.be/ElXK1bgrByw Stretch that skull skin youtu.be/tRtPVJHSkV0 On 'writing' youtu.be/uVwlF6CGfy0 Balls youtu.be/TgbIsDUI-Bw Against God (and gods) youtu.be/Vnl8GqtHy3c Ring of power youtu.be/EAY4qRvM82g The world and I youtu.be/esiyVEtMIRA Things fall down youtu.be/8zt5VkO2dm0 Size of the universe youtu.be/sF2e4ChU9Z0 18 Seeing my nose youtu.be/p0SV1HHMQLA Locked corridor youtu.be/fRJ5Q63eBfA Conundrums youtu.be/2RTF2zaTlVA Infidel youtu.be/REgae-6Pm9w Things look funny  youtu.be/deNYssSsllE Tudor Square youtu.be/Gpn1cDbYOt0 The reckoning youtu.be/dl7O9uq8AjE Words have no meaning youtu.be/jEDDZoePJkI Existential Philosophy 10 Butter in the pan youtu.be/UOuZfQ-UsPE Zombies youtu.be/p1wgNdaMsUk What is 'what is'? youtu.be/zH88E_6mb6c The swimmer youtu.be/xTiyIF8MjV8 Magic spells youtu.be/hPbvAWSmfo0 It's all about the wonder youtu.be/mmf1cFsmBZw Philosophy for apes youtu.be/_Qmip85bt8s Two tribes youtu.be/OmWLJ-p2U4o Fairground ride youtu.be/rPuH4ouvzdQ A new leaf youtu.be/XjkSR0LczvU Metaphysics, life and death youtu.be/1jDairfUD3g Philosophizer: between Pirsig and Gulliver youtu.be/lp1zKq3eyZE Philosophizer know thyself youtu.be/tuQFjoitzBY Metaphysics and contingency youtu.be/GsO2RbKV1tA The deep mystery of things youtu.be/oxKsilvYTHg Philosophers and sophists youtu.be/dDykcao5a4c Return of the evil demon youtu.be/hUq8CJQfb9M The elephant in the room youtu.be/Dck0aamerRw Beginning with nothing youtu.be/Y_q4cfJeIHY The problem of starting point youtu.be/-SxVMofFyZc Philosophical pathways youtu.be/Kebc_rASA9M The world, I and now youtu.be/1-6iDRMCUzM Metaphysics of personal identity youtu.be/8NL3YyiRCGo Is ultimate reality knowable? youtu.be/2Qeg9UKdtQg Time travel and the possible world machine youtu.be/2g34yBStl-w Suffering, possible worlds and the multiverse youtu.be/LEOXqakeIlA Satanism, solipsism, nihilism youtu.be/uVejNgcZ7z8 Searching for a reason youtu.be/XdTBbjo-3B4 Metaphysics and ultimate reality youtu.be/2oQDTE-EQt4 What is truth? youtu.be/tQUh9I2ckys Reality of the past youtu.be/7BuGu_fSR4Y Reality: the locked corridor youtu.be/lX_Tb3muB_w What is death? youtu.be/bzWbN40zB9A Why am I here? youtu.be/exVSSpQPi88
Interview	Jules Evans Geoffrey Klempner: on taking philosophy beyond academia (Alternative link)
News Media	The Washington Post Online, 11th June 2014 A metaphysical inquiry: If Donald Trump retweets a fake Donald Trump quote... does the quote become real? (Caitlin Dewey) Chartered Management Institute: Insights, 7th January 2015 What use is philosophy to businesspeople?
Photography	Camera Dreamer cameradreamer.net Camera Dreamer Blog cameradreamer.blogspot.com Barratts Photo-Press klempner.freeshell.org/barratts/ Flickr Photostream flickr.com/photos/gklempner GKlempner at Saatchi Art saatchiart.com/gklempner Article: Metaphysics of the Photograph (2007)
Music	'The Singing Philosophizer' (59 sec. YouTube Video) youtu.be/936yJzZXehk
Selected Publications	'The Man Who Folded Himself: Afterword' David Gerrold The Man Who Folded Himself Benbella Books 2003 Philosophy Pathways Issue 41 2002 'Pathways to Philosophy: Seven Years On' Practical Philosophy Journal for the Society for Philosophy in Practice Vol. 6. No. 1 2003 (download PDF) 'The Business Arena' Philosophy for Business Issue 5 2004 'Ethics and Advertising' Jennifer Gunning and Soren Holm Eds. Ethics, Law and Society Vol. 2 Ashgate 2006 (download PDF) 'The Pathways School of Philosophy' Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers APA Newsletters Vol. 7 No. 1 2007 (download PDF) 'Philosophy in the Business Arena' Philosophical Practice Journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, Vol. 4 No. 1 2009 (download PDF) 'Philosophy, Ethics and Dialogue' Journal of Dialogue Studies Vol. 2 No. 2 2014 (download PDF)
Motto	NOLI ME FATIGARE