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
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.