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Thomas Cathcart is the author of coauthor of six books, including the New York Times best-seller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar (2007). He has been a college instructor, a hospital administrator, a social worker with inner-city gangs, a hospice director for patients with HIV/AIDS, and a lay vis mere leader in many congregations. He lives in upstate New York. vis mindre
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It achieved its goal of explaining philosophy to the layman. But I wouldn't go out of my way to reccomend it to friends.
 
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steven.skytower | 115 andre anmeldelser | Jan 26, 2024 |
I've been a casual reader of philosophy since my dad gave me a copy of "Thales to Dewey" when I was a senior in high school. I mention this only because I'm not sure if the jokes were funnier to me because I was familiar with most of the philosophical points they were illustrating. Either way, one isn't going to walk away from this book knowing a great deal about philosophy. But it might take the scary/snobby edge off of the subject and allow one to more comfortably take up reading a good philosophy book.… (mere)
 
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Treebeard_404 | 115 andre anmeldelser | Jan 23, 2024 |
Mostly dad jokes, but as always the most hilarious aspects of philosophy are usually anecdotes about the philosophers themselves. For example, William James was irritated that a psychic he frequented for her sexually charged seances was debunked by a student.
 
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Kavinay | 20 andre anmeldelser | Sep 13, 2023 |
understanding philosophy through jokes
 
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7
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4,153
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ISBN
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