The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten

100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

By: Julian Baggini

Narrated by: Paul Hilliar

Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from sources as diverse as Plato and Steven Spielberg, author Julian Baggini presents abstract philosophical issues in concrete terms, suggesting possible solutions while encouraging listeners to draw their own conclusions.

Lively, clever, and thought-provoking, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten is a portable feast for the mind that is sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite.

©2005 Julian Baggini (P)2022 Tantor

It exceeds at what it’s trying to be. And what it’s trying to be is inherently unsuited for long periods of listening.

100 well written and performed scenarios that make some of the most challenging questions in philosophy digestible. If you can only listen for 10 minutes at a time, this is wonderful food for thought. Any longer and you aren’t able to reflect or even retain any of what you just heard