Love is a Fallacy

I'd like to share something that we read in class way back in Secondary 3 Philosophy. It's a hilarious short story called Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman, which discusses various logical fallacies. Look out for the twist at the end.

Love is a Fallacy

You'll need to read the start of the story to understand parts of the ending, but if you'd like to skip straight to the part where they start discussing fallacies, you could start reading at the paragraph beginning with "I had my first date with Polly the following evening" slightly less than halfway down the page.

Philosophy Bites

Philosophy Bites is a site offering podcasts with top philosophers on bite-sized topics. Philosophers interviewed include Peter Singer, Stephen Law, Simon Blackburn, A.C. Grayling and Alain de Botton. With over forty interviews and counting, it includes interviews on topics ranging from Plato's cave to moral relativism to the subjectivity of wine tasting, and is definitely worth checking out.

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Some titles to entice you:

Related to the KI Syllabus
A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
Brad Hooker on Consequentialism
Barry Stroud on Scepticism

Other Interesting Podcasts
Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil
A. C. Grayling on Atheism
Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism
Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy


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