Speakers 2009
Lou Marinoff
Professor, City College of New York (CCNY), President APPA, USA
Session
He participated in the "Urban Stress and Mental Health" session.
Biography
Lou Marinoff, a Commonwealth Scholar originally from Canada, earned his Doctorate in Philosophy of Science at University College London (UCL). He held fellowships at UCL and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was Moderator of the Canadian Business and Professional Ethics Network at the University of British Columbia’s Center for Applied Ethics. He is currently Professor and Deputy Chair of Philosophy at The City College of New York.
Lou Marinoff has been a philosophical counselor and consultant since 1991. His clients include individuals, educational institutions, professional associations, foundations, corporations, NGOs and governmental entities. He has been a Fellow of the Institute for Local Government at the University of Arizona, a Fellow of The Aspen Institute’s Executive Seminar, Faculty of the World Economic Forum, and advisor to several global think-tanks. He is founding president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA).
Lou Marinoff is the author of three international bestsellers: Plato Not Prozac (HarperCollins, NY, 1999, published in twenty-seven languages), Therapy for the Sane (Bloomsbury, NY & London, 2003), and The Middle Way (Sterling, NY & London, 2007). He has also written a textbook, Philosophical Practice (Academic Press, NY, 2001), and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the APPA. The New York Times called him “the world’s most successful marketer of philosophical counseling” (Dan Duane, The Socratic Shrink, Weekend Magazine, March 2004.)
Lou Marinoff has been featured in two documentary films, both pertaining to sports. He was three-time Canadian Open table hockey champion (1978-80) during table hockey’s “Golden Era,” and is now an ambassador of the sport in its renaissance. He is the current New York City champion (2007, 2008) and Las Vegas Classic champion (2008, 2009).
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