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Kant and the Platypus

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How we know that a cat is a cat is a nice philosophical poser, and has been since the time of Plato. Why we should all agree on calling the animal a cat is equally interesting, yet it throws up the problem that lies...

How to Travel With a Salmon

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Hilarious and provocative, fanciful and wise, offering answers to questions we never thought to ask and questions to the answers always thought we knew, these essays range over subjects marginally useful and...

Five Moral Pieces

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Faith in Fakes

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The author of "The Name of the Rose" considers a wide range of topics, from "Superman" and "Casablanca", Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to pop festivals and...