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100 1 $aPaulos, John Allen.
245 10 $aI think, therefore I laugh :$bthe flip side of philosophy /$cJohn Allen Paulos.
260 $aLondon :$bPenguin,$c2001.
300 $a176 pages ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London: Allen Lane, 2000.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tTwo Unlikely Pairs of Men --$tWittgenstein and Carroll --$tGroucho Meets Russell --$tLogic --$tEither-Or --$tYou Bet Your Life --$tSillygisms --$tThe Titl of This Section Contains Three Erors --$tRussell's Dr. Goldberg and Dr. Rubin --$tLanguage and Metalanguage: Do You Get It? --$tMeaning, Reference, and Dora Black's First Husband --$tAnalytic vs. Synthetic, Boole vs. Boyle, and Mathematics vs. Cookery --$tScience --$tInduction, Causality, and Hume's Eggs --$tThe Tortoise Came First? --$tOf Birds and Strange Colors --$tTruths, Half-Truths, and Statistics --$tDuhem, Poincare, and the Poconos-Catskill Diet --$tReductionism, Fallibilism, and Opportunism --$tRandomness and the Berry Task --$tDeterminism and Smart Computers --$tBell's Inequality and Weirdness --$tOn Assumptions --$tPeople --$tContext, Complexity, and Artificial Intelligence --$tWhy Did He Just Now Touch His Head? --$tArrow, Prisoners, and Compromise.
520 $aWittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, John Allen Paulos shows how conceptual humour and analytic philosophy resonate at a very deep level. Both evince a keen concern for language and its (mis)interpretations; both require a free intelligence in a relatively open society, as well as a sceptical tendency towards debunking; and both are quintessentially human. "I Think, Therefore I Laugh" is packed with jokes, stories, parables, puzzles and anecdotes, all of which relate in one way or another to various philosophical problems, leading to some unexpected insights. -- From http://www.amazon.co.uk (Sep. 26, 2012).
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650 0 $aAmerican wit and humor.
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