I remember reading a book about philosophy a few years ago, but I don’t remember what it’s called, despite remembering several things about it. However searching the web or asking LLMs with what I remember has proved to not find it.
Can any of you help?
What I remember
- It’s ordered into chapters by topic
- It’s lighthearted in tone, despite being mostly nonfiction, reminiscent of the style of What If or We Have No Idea
- They like telling stories to illustrate their points
- One topic was about identity and there was a story about two people’s brains getting swapped
- There was a mention of the simulation hypothesis with aliens that put a boy inside a video game for his birthday gift because they saw he liked the game - brain in a vat
- Various time travel paradoxes and how they could be solved - diverging universes, multiple universes, closed timelike curves
- The cover was fun and bold, and it mentioned on it things that it contained inside
- One chapter was about the ethics of eating animals and there was a story about giants eating people (because people eat animals)
- There was a chapter about God
- I didn’t finish it, I want to read the rest of it
Please help me find it
101 Philosophy Problems by Martin Cohen?
Thanks, it was a good suggestion. Unfortunately, that wasn’t it. This book has many short sections with a question at the end of each one, but the one I remember has fewer longer sections without a question. And it has different stories.
‘There are two errors…’ by Robert M Martin?
No, but thanks
Baggini’s The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten maybe?
No, but thanks. The title is something about philosophy generally, and it covers multiple topics.