Julian Baggini - The Duck That Won The Lottery

Julian Baggini is the founding editor of The Philosopher’s Magazine. He writes regularly for publications such as the Guardian, Sunday Herald, and The Times Educational Supplement, and is a regular guest on BBC radio. He is the author of several books on philosophy, including Making Sense - Philosophy Behind The Headlines and Atheism - A Very Short Introduction.

The Duck That Won The Lottery is a companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten and provides a rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad, argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry takes as its starting point an example of questionable reasoning from the media or literature.