The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, (Paperback)

from Steve55

There is a strange paradox that our ability to think sets humanity apart, yet for the most part we resist at every opportunity the challenge of actually thinking. I recall a wonderful quotation from Steve Allen "Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave...

from koeniel

The title is confusing and therefore interesting, which is why I picked up the book. Basically this is a book which contains 100 short thought experiments, or short scenarios, which could be strange and weird like what's used as the title, which are used to explain a moral, ethical or philosophic...

from Diwanna

What an interesting little book. Great for people with short attention spans like me as each chapter is only about 2-4 pages long. Basically he takes 100 philosophical arguments and presents them in a new light, then explains where he got them from and why this idea is important. Very simple to r...

from TheDivineOomba

It took me a bit of effort to get into this book. The first 20 puzzles weren't all that interesting. But than... I started to really think about what each story was asking - how was it the same or different than a similar scenario. The book was easy to read, philosophy in nice bite sized pieces. ...

from TeaTimeCoder

It's like reading a table of contents. An interesting table of contents but I can't help thinking it would be worthwhile if the author went into some more detail, maybe researching what other philosophers wrote about each of the subjects, showing different arguments and generally fleshing out the...