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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a delightful little book. It aims to explain the big topics in philosophy, and illustrate them with jokes. I learned a little and laughed a lot, so I'd say it succeeded. Not all the jokes fit so well into the philosophic branch they're meant to illustrate, but this isn't meant to be a serious treatise. For example, here's a joke from the Philosophy of Language chapter:
I guess there's a point here about differing assumptions about the dialog, but it doesn't really matter: the joke is funny. The whole book is like that: you'll learn something about philosophy, and even if you don't, the jokes are funny. | |
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