Big Ideas Little Pictures

Get the book!

Big Ideas Little Pictures

Sketchplanations podcast photo of Rob Bell, Tom Pellereau and Jono Hey

Prefer to listen?

Try the podcast

Sketchplanations is ad-free
thanks to supporters like you.

See more on Patreon

Philosophy sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Philosophy. Discover the frameworks, principles, and tips I've sketched to make Philosophy topics easy to understand and share.

What is Hanlon's razor example explained: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Here, it's explained in a cartoon of someone getting mad at dropped litter when it accidentally was dropped out of the bin bag of another person around the corner

Russell's Teapot illustration: an unexceptional china teapot floats peacefully in space with part of a large burnt-red planet visible in the background. Bertrand Russell's quote fills the space: "If I were to claim "there's a teapot, too small to spot, orbiting between Earth and Mars", the burden of proof lies on me."

Russell's Teapot

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis — Hegel's dialectic — as a progression of ideas illustrated with alerts invented on a phone, frustration with alerts leading to do not disturb settings

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis

Metaphors for ideas

Buy Me A Coffee