Mitch Francis (B.A., Castleton State College, 2014) created a number of the illustrations on the site.
Meet Mitch.
I was an art major and have been drawing cartoons my whole life. I love to create stories and ideas and then put them to paper. I wrote and illustrated my own children’s book, The Hungriest Tadamus. Other hobbies include: hanging out with my fiancé Emily, watching a lot of movies, reading a lot of comic books, and making funny noises.
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- “The School of Athens,” by Mitch Francis
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- Pascal French genius Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) presented belief in God as a rational wager. (Image: “Pascal,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- “Epicurus’ Garden,” by Mitch Francis
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- Aristotle Aristotle (384 – 322 BCE) in turn studied at Plato’s “Academy” in Athens; and his work rounds out a Golden Age of Philosophy in Ancient Greece. (Image: “Aristotle,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- “Alien-ation,” by Mitch Francis
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- Wittgenstein The philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) argued that there is no set of concepts that capture reality thanks to their unambiguous "meanings"; deep down, meaning rides on game-like social practices. (Image: "Wittgenstein," by Mitch Francis.)
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- Turing Artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) argued that machines could in fact be people. (Image: “Alan Turing,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- Descartes Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) was a philosopher and scientist who probed human knowledge in search of certainty. (Image: “Rene Descartes,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- “Marx, Family Man,” by Mitch Francis
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- “Lame Epictetus,” by Mitch Francis
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- “Utility-based Friendship,” by Mitch Francis
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- Sartre French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980) defended a form of radical personal freedom which is especially associated with his "existentialism." (Image: "Sartre," by Mitch Francis.)
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- Epictetus Epictetus (55 – 135 CE) – formerly a slave to a Roman master – was an important teacher of Stoicism, the way of acceptance. (Image: “Epictetus,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- “Capitalist Vampire,” by Mitch Francis
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- King Martin Luther King, Jr.'s (1929 – 1968) understanding of his activism was subtly philosophical – and more than a little indebted to Socrates. (Image: "MLK," by Mitch Francis.)
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- Hume David Hume (1711 – 1776) shook the foundations of human knowledge – and they remain shaken. (Image: “David Hume,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- “Marx,” by Mitch Francis
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- “Virtue Vinny,” by Mitch Francis. Vinny’s working on Plato’s “Big Four”!
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- “The Man Cave,” by Mitch Francis
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- Socrates Socrates (469 – 399 BCE) was one of the great shapers of philosophy. (Image: “Socrates,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- Plato Plato (427 – 347 BCE) was a disciple of Socrates, and great contributor to philosophy in his own right. (Image: “Plato,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- “The Cave,” by Mitch Francis
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- “Plato’s 3-Part Soul,” by Mitch Francis
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- Kierkegaard Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) sought authentic individual existence in the face of modern conformism. (Image: “Kierkegaard,” by Mitch Francis.)
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- Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was a German philosopher and pessimist who elevated music as a vehicle of transcendence.
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- Epicurus Epicurus (341 – 270 BCE) welcomed all to the Garden in which he taught an enlightened “hedonist” philosophy. (Image: “Epicurus,” by Mitch Francis.)
