Fun with Philosophy

UNDERSTANDING DEWEY
100 PHILOSOPHY
200 RELIGION

MORE SPECIFICALLY
DEWEY 102.07 (Consciousness)
DEWEY 126
DEWEY 153

SUBJECTS
Philosophy.
Philosophy -- Humor.
Consciousness.
Self (Philosophy)
Human beings
Consciousness.
Intellect.
Soul.

NONFICTION
Cathcart, Thomas, 1940- and Daniel Klein. Aristotle and an aardvark go to Washington : understanding political doublespeak through philosophy and jokes. New York : Abrams Image, c2007. A NOTE about the authors from www.amazon.com : Tom Cathcart and Dan Klein pursued the usual careers after majoring in philosophy at Harvard. Tom worked with street gangs in Chicago and dropped in and out of various divinity schools. Dan wrote jokes for comedians, designed stunts for Candid Camera, and continues to pen thrillers. Each lives with his wife in New England.

Angier, Natalie. The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Company, c2007. Dewey Class: 500. Contents: Thinking scientifically -- Probabilities -- Calibration -- Physics -- Chemistry -- Evolutionary biology -- Molecular biology -- Geology -- Astronomy

SEE ALSO
Isaacson, Walter. Einstein : his life and universe. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007. Summary: Offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science and the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.

Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945- I am a strange loop. New York : BasicBooks/Perseus Books Group, c2007. From publisher's description -- This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction?--From publisher description.

Seymour-Smith, Martin. The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today.

Angier, Natalie. Woman : an intimate geography.

Sacks, Oliver W. Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain.

Shubin, Neil. Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body.

Jacoby, Susan, 1945- The age of American unreason.

Weisman, Alan. The world without us.

SEE WORKS OR QUOTES FROM FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Deepak Chopra
Confucius
Sun Tzu
Socrates
Lao Tzu
Plato
Aristotle
Karl Marx