Pooh and the Philosophers

Pooh and the Philosophers
Author	John Tyerman Williams
Publisher	Dutton Books
Publication date	1995

Pooh and the Philosophers is a 1995 book by John Tyerman Williams, purporting to show how all of Western philosophy from the last 3,000 years was a long preparation for Winnie the Pooh.^[1] It was published in 1995 by Dutton in the United States and by Methuen in the United Kingdom, using A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh, and is intended to be both humorous and intellectual.

Authorship and content

J. T. Williams explains a number of philosophical theories using many different Milne quotation, such as René Descartes's "I think therefore I am," and distills them down to a very simple level. Williams was a retired schoolteacher of English and history with a Ph.D in philosophy. He died in 2016.^[2]

Related works

Pooh and the Magicians (originally Pooh and the Ancient Mysteries)
Pooh and the Psychologists

Notes

^ Mark Kingwell (1 January 1999). Marginalia: A Cultural Reader. Penguin Books. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-14-028699-1.
^ "John Tyerman Williams". AM Heath Literary Agents. Retrieved 2023-06-22.

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John Tyerman Williams

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[Kingwell1999-1] Mark Kingwell (1 January 1999). Marginalia: A Cultural Reader. Penguin Books. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-14-028699-1.

[2] "John Tyerman Williams". AM Heath Literary Agents. Retrieved 2023-06-22.

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