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Socrates considers snack mix

19 October 201419 October 2014 Myers E0: Ethics in general, E2: What makes right acts right?, P0: Philosophy in general, P1: What should I do? Hobbes, humor, Kant, Nietzsche, Socrates

Dan Pashman humorously asks whether it is ethical to cherry-pick your favorite ingredient from a snack mix. Socrates, Hobbes, Kant, and Nietzsche weigh in.

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How do we know we know things?

28 September 2014 Myers P2: What can I know? humor

Do all the problems of philosophy disappear when we simplify things?

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Truth is a treadmill

20 June 201423 June 2014 Myers E0: Ethics in general, P0: Philosophy in general humor

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Thanks you, Charles Barsotti!

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Does trolleyology promote violence?

17 May 2014 Myers E2: What makes right acts right? humor, trolleyology

Lawmakers blame philosophy for recent spate of trolley deaths.  Humor!  And yet maybe we should think about the propriety of flippantly talking about flipping the switch in life-and-death cases.

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The Onion deploys Nietzsche for satire

7 November 2013 Myers E1: What makes morality moral?, P3: What am I? existentialism, humor, Nietzsche

Kidnapped teen freed, though freedom is its own kind of prison, is is not? But who or what is the target of the satire? Nietzsche, scholars who write about him, the press … surely not philosophy professors?

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Cartoons about epistemology?

Link 1 September 201324 September 2013 Myers P0: Philosophy in general humor

Crazy Epistemology. Some pretty good philosophical cartoons from The New Yorker.

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