Modus Ponens Institute

MPI Education Inc., previously known as the “Modus Ponens Institute,” is a collaboration between two long-time friends and colleagues, Zach Bloom and Archie Stapleton. It has a number of arms but operates from a single, simple objective: to improve public discourse and education through philosophy, ethics, and dialogue.

Zach and Archie met on the first day of university in 2016. Since then they completed undergraduate honours degrees in Philosophy and received masters degrees in Philosophy and Theology from the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Divinity School respectively. Both have taught and participated in competitive debate for over a decade, and in September 2024 they incorporated to create the Modus Ponens Institute.

Since its founding in 2024, MPI has developed expertise in two key areas:

1. managing and teaching philosophy and debate classes,
2. running international, online ethics and debate competitions for students around the world, which MPI does in partnership with the Arizona-based technology and ethics non-profit TKE.