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Title Discworld and philosophy : reality is not what it seems / edited by Nicolas Michaud.

Publication Info. Chicago : Open Court, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustration.
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Series Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 101
Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 101.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Rewriting your chem -- More golems than you might think / Vanessa Frohlich -- Golem morality in the modern world / Matthew Skene -- We willna be fooled again! We free anarchists! / Michael Kugler -- The liberating power of Nanny Ogg's bouncing bosom / Vanessa Frohlich -- The truth shall make ye fret / Jamie Carlin Watson -- Truth, logic, and law are nice, but someone still has to do the wash -- The absurdity of the luggage / Brandon Kempner -- Pratchett's Republic / Brandon Kempner -- Honesty trumps cleverness: Sam Vimes and commonsense philosophy / Matthew Skene -- Why would you put a con artist in charge of the money? / Don Fallis -- Lord Vetinari's friendly guide to tyranny / Daniel Malloy -- Some things are necessary, not personal -- Can a leopard change its shorts? / Daniel Malloy -- Becoming Vetinari: personal identity on the Discworld / Jeremy Pierce -- How to be a dwarf / Daniel Malloy -- Being one's me: (witchy) personal identity on the Discworld / Trip McCrossin.
Ye canna' ken what ye canna' ken -- The serious monk's guide to re-writing history / John V. Karavitis -- Getting at the truth / Douglas Jordan -- Sin, my young man, is when you treat people as things / Kamil Karas -- Probably quantum -- Fate on the Discworld and Roundworld / Jeremy Pierce -- The alchemy of flat worlds -- The intersection of science and philosophy, the seediest corner in Ankh-Morpork / Daniel Miori -- Welcome to my world / Christopher Ketcham -- Cocking a snook at Death, and getting away with it: does the personification of death make it less scary? / Daniel Miori -- I'd rather stay an orangutan because that's why Discworld exists / Nicolas Michaud.
Summary Pour yourself glass of Three Wizard's Chardonnay, Winkle's Old Peculiar, or Soggy Mountain Dew, pull up a three-legged chair, and for Om's sake, stay out of the bathtub! Keep and eye open for the octarine flashes that would indicate magic is trying to escape from the pages and be ready to grab something made of copper in order to ground uncontrolled magic without harmful incident (Some would Consider the Copper Safeguard Unnecessary) You are now ready to dive into Discworld and Philosophy and join a group of philosophical Discworld fans as they explore truth, history, death, luck, morality, and reality in the magical inverse of the Disc.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Subject Pratchett, Terry -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pratchett, Terry. Discworld series.
Pratchett, Terry. (OCoLC)fst00071956
Discworld series (Pratchett, Terry) (OCoLC)fst01393517
Philosophy in literature. (OCoLC)fst01060836
Discworld (Imaginary place) (OCoLC)fst00895151
FICTION -- General.
Discworld (Imaginary place)
Philosophy in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Michaud, Nicolas.
Other Form: Print version: Discworld and philosophy. Chicago : Open Court, [2016] 081269919X (OCoLC)919104390
ISBN 9780812699234 (electronic bk.)
0812699238 (electronic bk.)
081269919X
9780812699197
Standard No. 99971583841
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