Philosophical humor

Compiled by David Chalmers

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
• Definitions from the profession
• 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
• Philosophical periodic table
• 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
• Four philosophy jokes
• 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)
• Philosophical Haikus
• Philosopher poems
• 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
• The Monads
• Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding (and video version)
• A rant about Kant (and other poems)
• Philosophical Abecedarium
• The Philosopher

Comics and video

• Existential Comics
• Philosophy Comics
• Principia Comica
• The Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox
• Philosophy Cartoons
• Dead Philosophers in Heaven
• Lump of Clay (Philosophy Webcomic)
• 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)
• History of Western Philosophy in 90 seconds
• Extended Cognition Silent Movie

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, dogs, cockatoos, and tiggers (see also felosophy)
• Beatles philosophy
• David Lewis on Ern Malley and Ernst Mally
• The wussy/bad-ass criterion for philosophical views
• An alcoholic refutation of Cartesian skepticism (and other reconstructions)
• Everything is equally interesting
• Horoscopes for philosophy graduate students
• Socrates' Argument Clinic
• Philosofighter
• Learn logic with Beavis and Butthead
• Goat philosophy
• New logical particles
• Tractatus Logico-Randomus
• Para-frays, or, The writes of passage
• Zombies on the web
• Introductory philosophy quiz
• How to be a philosopher
• Nanophilosophy
• Porn for Philosophers
• Philosophy Action Figures
• The Metaphysics Lecture
• Synthetic philosophy: A manifesto

See also

• Philosopher Jokes (Miami)
• Chomskybot
• Economist Jokes
• Mathematical Jokes
• Mathematical Humor
• Mathematical Big-Game Hunting (see also Elephant Hunting)
• Find your Birthday in Pi
• Physics Humor
• Psychology Humor Page
• Science Humor
• Luxurious Hair Club for Scientists
• Self-Reference Jokes
• Twinkies Project
• Viola Jokes & other Music Jokes

• David Chalmers' home page