The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, Julian Baggini
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, Julian Baggini
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The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

Author: Julian Baggini

Narrator: Paul Hilliar

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers 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 listeners to draw their own conclusions.

Lively, clever, and thought-provoking, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten is a portable feast for the mind that is sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite.

About Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author, coauthor, or editor of over twenty books. He regularly writes for national and international newspapers and magazines, and has produced reports for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos, and Counterpoint. Baggini has been academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy since 2019. He is cofounder of the Philosophers' Magazine, which he edited from 1997-2010. He is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent, which also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 21, 2013

Here's a question for vegetarians: if a pig were raised in a comfortable and humane slaughterhouse, would you eat it? What if that pig were also genetically modified to want to be eaten - if being eaten was indeed its life's ambition? How about a genetically modified chicken that had lost its sense......more

Goodreads review by B on March 03, 2012

This book is like being forced to hang out with a high school philosophy teacher who tries to get the cool kids to like him by demonstrating how "crazy" philosophy can be. Well, maybe it wasn't that bad. But it wasn't that good either.......more

Goodreads review by David on March 14, 2010

I thought this deserved 3.5 stars, but I'm perfectly happy to round up to 4 on the grounds that it was entertaining, thought-provoking, unpretentious and well-executed. Other reviewers have faulted it for lacking philosophical depth, but really - what could they have been expecting? The author makes......more

Goodreads review by Xeon on January 12, 2023

The idea of a thought experiment itself is very interesting. Throughout this book, many well known, and lesser known, thought experiments from throughout history are presented. Besides this, the assortment is good in that the thought experiments pertain to many topics besides just ethics. These fact......more

Goodreads review by Sumit on January 17, 2015

This one barely made it to my philosophy list. Barely. I confess, I've been guilty of judging the book by its cover. I picked it up because I couldn't resist the lure of bacon that's practically begging to be eaten. For a meat-lover turned vegetarian due to issues of animal cruelty, a pig that wants......more

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