Alan Sandy is an educator specialising in philosophy, literature, critical thinking, and academic English. With extensive international experience and an MSc TESOL from St Andrews, he creates accessible humanities learning for multilingual learners.
This site grew out of one belief: those who learn English deserve more than the English language – they deserve the whole world. Too often, language learning is framed as merely about grammatical mastery, exam strategies, and functional communication. But language is also about philosophy, literature, ethics, hermeneutics, and critical reading
Philosophy
This resource forms part of ThoughtBridge's commitment to making challenging ideas accessible through thoughtfully designed digital learning. Created in Articulate 360, it combines interactive multimedia, instructional design and learner-centred pedagogy to support multilingual students in developing critical thinking and academic confidence while exploring the nature and purpose
Philosophy
💡Complete the interactive Plato's Cave lesson and join the Padlet discussion to share your ideas with other learners. Philosophy: A definition Philosophy is unlike other traditional subjects, such as Geography or History. These ask students to remember a lot of information, such as dates, places, events, and names.
Philosophy
Dualism A set of ideas or beliefs about reality that says the world and universe around us is made of two different, if it is the right word at all, kinds of “thing.” On the one hand, the physical and on the other, the non-physical. Physical versus Non-physical
Definition of Materialism Materialism is a set of ideas or beliefs that holds that reality is made only of the physical. When they say everything exists at the level of the physical, they mean that everything exists at the level of atoms. For example, sunlight and oxygen are not directly
A criticism of Materialism: Consider any sophisticated gadget such as an iPhone Pro. It is a complicated physical machine capable of amazing things; however, despite its complex technology, has it ever shown any signs of consciousness as humans do, or as we seem to recognise in others? The answer is