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Stony Reply
One day Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell found themeselves discus...
Point Well Made?
While visiting Henry Ward Beecher one day, Robert Ingersoll noticed a beautiful ...
Good Question?
While visiting a greenhouse in Dresden one day, Arthur Schopenhauer was approach...
Determined Thief?
One day Zeno caught his slave stealing. Threatened with a good thrashing, he beg...
Huhgel?
Even on his deathbed Hegel remained abstractly philosophical. "Only one man ever...
Oil Baron?
Thales was often dismissed as little more than a flighty philosopher; his suppos...
Playing God
Though Werner Heisenberg was awarded a Nobel Prize for his elucidation of the "u...
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Free...
Isaac Bashevis Singer was once asked whether he believed in free will or predest...
Symbolic Gesture
All of the famed philosopher and mathematician Willard Van Orman Quine's work wa...
Second Opinion?
One day, the great Chinese philosopher Shih Teng was consulted by the relatives ...
Liar Paradox
The great poet and prophet Epimenides is said to have remarked one day that "all...
Abort?
A noted professor of medicine at the University of California once presented his...
Immortal Wit
"What is your opinion," an Italian woman once asked Isaac Newton, "of the immort...
Minor Annoyance
A student once suggested to Socrates that a certain tyrant from a distant city-s...
Objective Thinker
Longtime Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, an erstwhile follower of...
Russell's Legacy
Bertrand Russell once had a curious nightmare in which he found himself on the t...
Augean Stables
Morris Cohen was once approached by a student at the end of his introductory phi...
Causmology?
Ronald Knox once found himself embroiled in a theological argument with the scie...
Epistemology
In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes sought to examine ...
Samuel Beckett & the Human ...
One day Samuel Beckett's friend Walter Lowenfels began to expound upon the human...
Mortimer J. Adler
One day Mortimer J. Adler stopped in a jewelry store to pick up a gift. The jewe...
Jacques Derrida: Deconstruc...
The following exchange took place during a conversation shortly after 9/11 betwe...
Suburban Bliss?
Alexander the Great once visited Corinth, where the famed Cynic Diogenes was the...
What the H.E.C.K.?
In April 2002, noted Oxford University philosopher Richard Swinburne delivered a...
Whoda Thunk It?
Dr. Seuss was once amused to receive a curious letter from an eight-year-old rea...
Buddha
Gautama Buddha's preaching was interrupted one day by a man unleashing a flurry ...
Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein
One day in 1993, a group of undergraduates (this writer among them) attended a s...
Turtles
While delivering a lecture on cosmology one day, Sir Arthur Eddington gave a bri...
Diogenes: Drinking Goblet
Diogenes once observed a child drinking from his cupped hands. "In the practice ...
Benjamin Jowett: Finding God
Oxford professor Benjamin Jowett was once approached by an arrogant young studen...
Equal En-Tao-Ments?
When Juang-Zu's disciples elected to give their master an elaborate burial, the ...
The Metaphysics of Baseball
Stanley Fish often told a story about the legendary major-league umpire Bill Kle...
Adled Mind?
One evening, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler engaged Gertrude Stein in a feroc...
String Theorist
The physicist Carlo Rovelli once found himself embroiled in an argument with a s...
Disraelist?
A political realist, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had little regard for John...
Universal Notion?
Albert Einstein once attended a scientific conference at which an eminent astron...
Good Idea?
Alfred North Whitehead was once asked whether he believed ideas or things to be ...
Gardening Bliss
One day Bertrand Russell was visited by a young friend, who found the philosophe...
Trinity
Richard Porson and a Trinitarian friend were discussing the nature of the Trinit...
Pi in the Face?
In the early 1980s, Edward Fredkin proposed what he called a new theory of physi...
Principia Mathematica
"I recall a relevant anecdote about the famous Principia Mathematica produced by...
Keats = Moron?
In August 2002, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats began collecting signatures on ...
Footnote to Plato
As an undergraduate at Harvard, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote a fifteen-page ...
Fateful Address
In 2002, Tom Wolfe delivered a commencement address at Duke University. Shunning...
Spartan Constitution
The Spartan statesman Lycurgus, famed for his advocacy of strict military discip...
Age of Reason
In 1758, the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius (one of the Encyclopedis...
Peter Singer: Nice, in Theory?
"Professor [Peter] Singer's endorsement of the principle that each person counts...
Kevin Bacon: Young Philosopher
"He had an incredible sense of himself," Kevin Bacon's father once recalled of h...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Twittg...
The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, a former engineering student, atte...
Image Squared?
A friend once encouraged Plotinus to have his portrait painted. The philosopher ...
Thomas Macaulay: Socratic I...
Thomas Macaulay was no great fan of the Socratic method (as related in Plato's d...
Birth of Atheism
"Doubt struck the ancient world like a meteorite, literally. In 467 BC, a meteor...
Clear Thinker?
Daniel Zalewsky once interviewed novelist Gary Shteyngart over dinner at the Rus...
Predictable Response?
Rene Descartes once attempted to explain his mechanistic philosophy - that all a...
Scrubbish?
A lady once asked a scrubwoman who regularly attended Ralph Waldo Emerson's lect...
Well Put?
While walking along a road one night Thales, intently studying the stars, sudden...
Sartre
Near the end of his life, the famed existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre ...
Human Problem
Many of Aldous Huxley's novels (Brave New World, for example) examined th...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Surpri...
"When I came home I expected a surprise," the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittge...
Clever Hans (long)
"Clever Hans was a notorious horse who lived a hundred years ago in Germany, and...
Gertrude Stein: Famous Last...
Dying of cancer, Gertrude Stein turned to her companion Alice B. Toklas and murm...
Sheen of Insanity?
Ann Landers once recalled her first meeting with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: ...
Clarence Darrow: Agnostic
In 1925, the great lawyer Clarence Darrow defended John T. Scopes, who was being...
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