Introducing: The Philosopher’s Toolkit

Introduction to a new series on thinking tools/models/maps

The fecund Postmodernist Gilles Deleuze once said that the work of philosophy is “forming, inventing and fabricating concepts”¹. I love it. It’s a definition of philosophy that makes its use and importance obvious.

There’s an old saying that “if all you have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail”. Concepts are tools. This one a hammer, tha…