Philosophical Humor
Some bits and pieces I’ve come across. Additions are always welcome
Lists and litanies
- Proofs that P
- More proofs that P
- Still more proofs that P
- Philosophical kisses
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- Non-philosopher’s guide to philosophical terms
- Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy
- Causes of death of philosophers
- Philosophical break-up lines
- Philosophy in words of one syllable
- Why no-one wants to play golf with a philosopher
- Philosophical warning labels
- The philosophers’ menu
- Philosophical lexicon
Jokes
- A universal philosophical refutation
- Philosophy light-bulb jokes
- A Descartes joke
- Sensual guide to departments
- Philosopher’s revenge
- Math/physics/philosophy joke
- The philosopher’s date
- Profession jokes: Philosophers
- Philosophy airplane jokes
- Understanding philosophy through jokes
Satires
- Brain in a vat at the wheel of a runaway trolley
- The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook
- A new refutation of the very possibility of Al Gore
- Husserl parody
- The Postmodernism Generator
- Realists Anonymous
- Jenny Jones on postmodernism
- Jerry Springer on philosophy
- The Lighter Report (and the Leiter report)
- Wittgenstein on fog-like sensations (and Fodor’s sequel)
- Tractatus Fuselagico-Umbilicus
- Analytic metaphysics: Sundayism and Mondayism
- Witteringswine’s Philosophical Tribulations
- A fragment of a lost Platonic dialogue
- The Russell/Moore skit
- Tech support, Nietzsche style
- On God’s perfections, and Is God made of soap?
- The beautification of logic
- Dear philosopher
Songs and poems
- History of Western Philosophy in Limericks
- History of Greek philosophy
- Wittgenstein without Tears
- Philosophical Clerihews (and more)
- Bruces’ Philosophy drinking song
- Philosophy songs
- M.A. Numminen sings Wittgenstein
- The general form of a truth-function
- I gave my love an emerose
- Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
- Nominalist things
- Ballad of St. Anselm
- Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding
- A rant about Kant (and other poems)
- Philosophical Abecedarium
- The Philosopher
Comics and video
- Existential Comics
- The Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox
- Dead Philosophers in Heaven
- Crime and Prepunishment
- Nietzsche Family Circus
- International Philosophy Football Match
- Berkeley on Locke on the material world
- Oxford philosophy
- Oxbridge philosophy
- Kant attack ad (also Kierkegaard)
Stories and sketches
- Monty Python’s International Philosophy sketch
- The Bruces Sketch (and the Karens Sketch)
- The Argument Clinic
- Analytic philosophy as reflected in the works of Monty Python
- I also dated Zarathustra
- Self-referential story
- They’re made of meat!
This and that
- The philosophical truth about cats and dogs!
- David Lewis on Ern Malley and Ernst Mally
- Everything is equally interesting
- Horoscopes for philosophy graduate students
- Socrates’ Argument Clinic
- Philosofighter
- Learn logic with Beavis and Butthead
- Goat philosophy
- Para-frays, or, The writes of passage
- Introductory philosophy quiz
- Nanophilosophy
- Philosophy Action Figures
- The Metaphysics Lecture
- Synthetic philosophy: A manifesto
See also