The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair PhilosopherPerfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers 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 Eaten is a portable feast for the mind that is sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite. |
Contents
Living in a | |
More or less | |
Double trouble | |
The elusive I | |
Sustainable development | |
The total perspective vortex | |
Eating Tiddles | |
Divine command | |
When no one wins | |
Good | |
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 soap bubble | |
Condemned to life | |
Land of the Epiphens | |
The lifeboat | |
The beetle in the | |
Squaring the circle | |
Buridans an | |
Pains remains | |
Duties done | |
The nightmare scenario | |
Life dependency | |
Memories are made of this | |
Just | |
Free Simone | |
The freespeech booth | |
Dont blame | |
Last resort | |
Preemptive justice | |
Nature the artist | |
I am a brain | |
The Chinese Room | |
The rockinghorse winner | |
Getting the blues | |
Take the money and | |
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 | |
The eyes have | |
Do as I say not as I | |
Mozzarella moon | |
I think therefore? | |
No know | |
Nipping the | |
Soul power | |
The forger | |
The poppadom paradox | |
Mad pain | |
The horror | |
An inspector calls | |
Life support | |
Free Percy | |
Being a | |
Water water everywhere | |
The ring of Gyges | |
Net head | |
The scapegoat | |
Gambling on | |
A Clockwork Orange | |
Hearts and heads | |
Sense and sensibility | |
The freeloader | |
The golden rule | |
The pleasure principle | |
The nowhere | |
Art for art s sake | |
Fair inequality | |
Total lack of recall | |
Kill and let | |
Something we know not what | |
No one gets hurt | |
Autogovernment | |
Zombies | |
The Sorites | |
The problem of evil | |
Family first | |
Moral luck | |
The experience machine | |
Give peace a chance? | |
The Nest café | |
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The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher Julian Baggini No preview available - 2006 |
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher Julian Baggini No preview available - 2006 |
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