Christopher Phillips travels around the world, facilitating hundreds of Socrates Cafés, in which ordinary people gather to ask questions--and questions about questions. He has been a teacher, a journalist, and is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Society for Philosophical Inquiry (SPI). The distinguished scholar and professor of philosophy Matthew Lipman and Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles serve on the advisory board of SPI.

Phillips has a bachelor's degree in government from the College of William & Mary. He has also earned a Master in Education degree in Early Elementary Education, with a specialization in Teaching Philosophy for Children, a Master of Science degree in Natural Sciences from Delta State University, and a Master of Arts degree in Humanities from California State University-Dominguez Hills. Currently he’s working on his doctoral degree in communications, as well as writing two new books on “dialogue for democracy”. Chris' wife, Cecilia Chapa Phillips, is co-founder of the nonprofit SPI; they're also the ecstatic parents of Caliope Alexis Phillips.