Damon Young (born 1975 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian philosopher, writer and commentator, and author of the books Distraction, Philosophy in the Garden and How to Think About Exercise.

[2] In 2013 Young won the Australasian Association of Philosophy's media prize for his public writing and broadcasting.

[3][4][5] The Australian called it lacking in precision, saying its "central proposition – that new information technologies distract us from our common existential challenge – is never thoroughly probed"[6] while London's Financial Times called it "lucid and optimistic".

[8] It was published in the UK in April 2014 by Rider, an imprint of Random House, under the title Voltaire's Vine and Other Philosophies: How Gardens Inspired Great Writers.

Young regularly comments on radio, and has appeared on Channel 7 Sunrise and ABC TV.