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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

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Authors: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Publisher: Abrams Image
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.8

Dewey Decimal Number: 102.07
ASIN: B001990I7Q

Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Condition: Very good condition, clean and tight, with subtle shelf and edge wear, multiple copies available, may be an ex library book, we ship the best copy available, great book, prompt shipping, excellent service.

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Heres a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. Its Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what its like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finallyit all makes sense!BRBRI laughed, I learned, I loved it! Roy Blount Jr.

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5 out of 5 stars

A Very Funny Book December 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a very funny book. Cathcart and Klein manage to teach a little philosophy along with the humor. They seem to understand their subject and they make it fun for the reader. br /br /I enjoyed this book even more than their other, similar, book: br /br /Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washingtonbr /br /I enjoyed this book and wholeheartedly recommend it to others. br / br /

5 out of 5 stars

wonderful gift book November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a wonderful book to enjoy and to give as a gift. It includes insights, wisdom, and great jokes!

5 out of 5 stars

Horrible both philosophically and comedically November 9, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

I'm a Ph.D. student in philosophy and I bought this to see whether any of it was worth using in an Intro to Philosophy course. None of it is worth using for that purpose. It does every topic an injustice: usually false or misleading; at best superficial. Nor is it funny; although I agree with Wittgenstein that good, serious philosophy could be written consisting entirely of jokes.br /br /James Grindelandbr /Department of Philosophybr /University of Georgia

3 out of 5 stars

Understanding the jokes November 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Our book club selection (9 people) for Oct. The members that were educated in these fields reveled on this book. Most of us weren't of that mindset, we did enjoy and shared our favorite or most meaningful joke. Those that understood high stars, others low marks so 3 stars and enjoy.

4 out of 5 stars

Philosphy can be hilarious October 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a very funny book with laugh out loud jokes that illustrate all the schools of philosophy, including meta-phlosophy: philosophy about philosophy, which, despite its name, does not invole drugs. You will learns something about these different branches that most of us would avoid like cow liver. You may even be inspired to take a class or read a more serious work. Me, I am going to read one of their other book.br /br /John, author of reading Thomas Merton

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