Pig That Wants to Be Eaten 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

Name: Pig That Wants to Be Eaten 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
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ISBN: 9780452287440

ISBN-10: 0452287448

ISBN-13: 9780452287440

Edition: 2006

Authors: Julian Baggini

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Both entertaining and startling, The Pig That Wants to Be Eatenoffers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from sources as diverse as Plato and Steven Spielberg, author Julian Baggini presents abstract philosophical issues in concrete terms, suggesting possible solutions while encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions: Lively, clever, and thought-provoking, The Pig That Wants to Be Eatenis a portable feast for the mind that is sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite. BACKCOVER: Thinking again is what this taut, incisive, bullet-hard book is dedicated to promoting. The Sunday Times(London) …

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594



The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten Preface


Acknowledgements


A note on sources



The evil demon



Beam me up . . .



The Indian and the ice



A byte on the side



The pig that wants to be eaten



Wheel of fortune



When no one wins



Good God



Bigger Brother



The veil of ignorance



The ship Theseus



Picasso on the beach



Black, white and red all over



Bank error in your favour



Ordinary heroism



Racing tortoises



The torture option



Rationality demands



Bursting the sop bubble



Condemned to life



Land of the Epiphens



The lifeboat



The beetle in the box



Squaring the circle



Buridan's an ass



Pain's remains



Duties done



The nightmare scenario



Life dependency



Memories are made of this



Just so



Free Simone



The free-speech booth



Don't blame me



Last resort



Pre-emptive justice



Nature the artist



I am a brain



The Chinese room



The rocking-horse winner



Getting the blues



Take the money and run



Future shock



Till death us do part



The invisible gardener



Amoebaesque



Rabbit!



Evil genius



The hole in the sum of the parts



The good bribe



Living in a vat



More or less



Double trouble



The elusive I



Sustainable development



The total perspective vortex



Eating Tiddles



Divine command



The eyes have it



Do as I say, not as I do



Mozzarella moon



I think, therefore?



No know



Nipping the bud



Soul power



The forger



The poppadom paradox



Mad pain



The horror



An inspector calls



Life support



Free Percy



Being a bat



Water, water, everywhere



The ring of Gyges



Net head



The scapegoat



Gambling on God



A Clockwork Orange



Hearts and heads



Sense and sensibility



The freeloader



The golden rule



The pleasure principle



The nowhere man



Art for art's sake



Fair inequality



Total lack of recall



Kill and let die



Something we know not what



No one gets hurt



Autogovernment



Zombies



The Sorites tax



The problem of evil



Family first



Moral luck



The experience machine



Give peace a chance?



The Nest cafï¿½


Index