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November 12, 2009

Funny Quips about Philosophy from Jerry Dworkin

I highly recommend Jerry Dworkin's "quips about philosophy", to which there is a link from Brian Leiter's blog (today--Nov 12): http:/leiterreports.typepad.com

As would be expected, they are very funny.  What are your favorites?

Posted by John Fischer on November 12, 2009 at 08:15 AM |

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Neil

One of my favorite Jewish jokes is not there; not strictly speaking a philosophy joke, but a philosophical joke (I have used it in lectures to illustrate the non-identity problem):

Two old Jewish men are sitting on a park bench. The first sighs, and turns to the other saying, "you know Sol, life is so hard it would be better never to have been born".

"You are right, Abe,", says the other, "but how many are so lucky? Not one in ten thousand".

Posted by: Neil | November 12, 2009 at 06:11 PM

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