Damon Young

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.