After leaving university, Palmer taught for three years at Marlborough College in Wiltshire (1974–77) and it was here that he introduced Philosophy as a Sixth Form subject.
1977 Palmer was the recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, which enabled him to study at the University of Marburg in Germany.
This course was subsequently published by The Lutterworth Press in 1991 as Moral Problems, and it remains the most successful School philosophy textbook since the War, still widely in use.
Two sets of his lectures - Freud and Jung on Religion (1997) and The Question of God (2001) - were subsequently published by Routledge.
I believe that by the deployment of reason and the acquisition of knowledge, by the development of moral law and the cultivation of compassion, the suffering of humanity can be alleviated and the condition of our lives improved.
I believe that the path to individual and collective happiness lies in being educated to reality, and in being thus released from the irresponsible and pernicious illusion of religion, for which there is neither evidence nor need.