A review by watermelleon
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini

Did not finish book.
DNF page 88

I wanted just to pick this up now and again but I literally do not care anymore and my gym are having a book swap sale. The problem with this book is that it has too many thought experiments which are not covered in enough depth, so it feels like a fact book where you read the experiment, think "hm that's interesting" and move on.

for me, it comes across as not academic enough for those studying philosophy, and too much of a "well I could have thought that" angle for non-academics. the ideas to me are very obvious and common ones that I have heard very often, and don't really offer depth or insight. also I did actually disagree with some of the ideas presented, ironically the ones for "" which considered vegetarians as people who do not eat meat only because of the fact the animal feels pain, when really there are many other factors surrounding environmentalism, health and perhaps just not liking the taste! depth is really where this book is let down, as it just didn't feel like a critical analysis to me, just explaining the situation for what it is.