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03749aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 A6BE84CAE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 150824t20162016ilua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 081269919X 020 $a 9780812699197 035 $a (OCoLC)919104390 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d IOO $d OCL $d UWO $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6066 R34 Z57 2016 245 00 $a Discworld and philosophy : $b reality is not what it seems / $c edited by Nicolas Michaud. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b Open Court, $c [2016] 300 $a xii, 316 pages : $b illustration ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Popular culture and philosophy ; $v volume 101 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index. 505 00 $g Some things are necessary, not personal -- $t Being one's me: (witchy) personal identity on the Discworld / $r Trip McCrossin. $t Golem morality in the modern world / $r Matthew Skene -- $t We willna be fooled again! We free anarchists! / $r Michael Kugler -- $g The $t liberating power of Nanny Ogg's bouncing bosom / $r Vanessa Frohlich -- $g The $t truth shall make ye fret / $r Jamie Carlin Watson -- $g Truth, logic, and law are nice, but someone still has to do the wash -- $g The $t absurdity of the luggage / $r Brandon Kempner -- $t Pratchett's Republic / $r Brandon Kempner -- $t Honesty trumps cleverness: Sam Vimes and commonsense philosophy / $r Matthew Skene -- $t Why would you put a con artist in charge of the money? / $r Don Fallis -- $t Lord Vetinari's friendly guide to tyranny / $r Daniel Malloy -- $g Some things are necessary, not personal -- $t Can a leopard change its shorts? / Daniel Malloy -- $t Becoming Vetinari: personal identity on the Discworld / $r Jeremy Pierce -- $t How to be a dwarf / $r Daniel Malloy -- $t Being one's me: (witchy) personal identity on the Discworld / $r Trip McCrossin. 505 00 $g The $g The $t I'd rather stay an orangutan because that's why Discworld exists / $r Nicolas Michaud. $t Getting at the truth / $r Douglas Jordan -- $t Sin, my young man, is when you treat people as things / $r Kamil Karas -- $g Probably quantum -- $t Fate on the Discworld and Roundworld / $r Jeremy Pierce -- $g The $t alchemy of flat worlds -- $g The $t intersection of science and philosophy, the seediest corner in Ankh-Morpork / $r Daniel Miori -- $t Welcome to my world / $r Christopher Ketcham -- $t Cocking a snook at Death, and getting away with it: does the personification of death make it less scary? / $r Daniel Miori -- $t I'd rather stay an orangutan because that's why Discworld exists / $r Nicolas Michaud. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Pratchett, Terry $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Pratchett, Terry. $t Discworld series. 650 0 $a Discworld (Imaginary place) 650 0 $a Philosophy in literature. 700 1 $a Michaud, Nicolas. 830 0 $a Popular culture and philosophy ; $v v. 101. 941 $a 3 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041413.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213011634.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204011533.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A6BE84CAE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search