The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher [Paperback]

Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party,The Pig That Wants to Be Eatenoffers 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 Eatenis a portable feast for the mind that is sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite.

1. The evil demon
2. Beam me up . . .
3. The Indian and the ice
4. A byte on the side
5. The pig that wants to be eaten
6. Wheel of fortune
7. When no one wins
8. Good God
9. Bigger Brother
10. The veil of ignorance
11. The shipTheseus
12. Picasso on the beach
13. Black, white and red all over
14. Bank error in your favour
15. Ordinary heroism
16. Racing tortoises
17. The torture option
18. Rationality demands
19. Bursting the sop bubble
20. Condemned to life
21. Land of the Epiphens
22. The lifeboat
23. The beetle in the box
24. Squaring the circle
25. Buridan's an ass
26. Pain's remains
27. Duties done
28. The nightmare scenario
29. Life dependency
30. Memories are made of this
31. Just so
32. Free Simone
33. The free-speech booth
34. Don't blame me
35. Last resort
36. Pre-emptive justice
37. Nature the artist
38. I am a brain
39. The Chinese room
40. The rocking-horse winner
41. Getting the blues
42. Take the money and run
43. Future shock
44. Till death us do part
45. The invisible gardener
46. Amoebaesque
47. Rabbit!
48. Evil genius
49. The hole in the sum of the parts
50. lE