Duck That Won the Lottery

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2008
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This companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry will be around 700 words and will take as its starting point an example of questionable reasoning from the media or literature. As with The Pig, the aim is to give readers something to chew on and work through for themselves.

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This companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry will be around 700 words and will take as its starting point an example of questionable reasoning from the media or literature. As with The Pig, the aim is to give readers something to chew on and work through for themselves.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 01 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 184708043X
ISBN 13: 9781847080431

Media Reviews

'This book is like the Sudoku of moral philosophy: apply your mind to any of its thought experiments while stuck on the tube, and quickly be transported out of rush-hour hell' New Statesman on The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten

Author Bio

Julian Baggini is the editor and co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine. His books include Do You Think What You Think YouThink? (with Jeremy Stangroom), What's It All About? - Philosophy and the Meaning of Life and the bestselling The Pig That Wants to be Eaten, all published by Granta Books.