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"What's all this then?" : the introduction / Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch -- "Life's a piece of shit" : heresy, humanism and heroism in Monty Python's Life of Brian / Kevin Schilbrack -- What Mr. Creosote knows about laughter / Noël Carroll -- The limits of Horatio's philosophy / Kurt Smith -- Why is an argument clinic less silly than an abuse clinic or a contradiction clinic? / Hary Brighouse -- A very naughty boy : getting right with Brian / Randall E. Auxier -- Monty Python and the holy grail : philosophy, gender, and society / Rebecca Housel -- Against transcendentalism : Monty Python's The meaning of life and Buddhism / Stephen Asma -- Is there life after Monty Python's The meaning of life? / Stephen Erickson -- God forgive us / Stephen Faison -- Monty Python and David Hume on religion / John Huss -- Madness in Monty Python's Flying circus / Michelle Spinelli -- Monty Python and the search for the meaning of life / Patrick Croskery -- Existentialism in Monty Python[...]: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre / Edward Slowik -- "My brain hurts!" / Rosalind Carey -- "Why is a philosopher like a python?" / James Taylor -- Tractatus comedo-philosophicus / Alan Richardson -- Monty Python's utterly devastating critique of ordinary language philosophy / George A. Reisch -- Word and objection : how Monty Python destroyed modern philosophy / Bruce Baldwin -- My years with Monty Python, or, what's so funny about language, truth, and analyticity? / Gary L. Hardcastle -- Themes in contemporary analytic philosophy as reflected in the work of Monty Python / Gary L. Hardcastle -- Everyone remembers their first time : about the authors -- What was all that, then? The index.;From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly recognized and honored for their creativity and enduring influence in the worlds of comedy and film. Monty Python and Philosophy extends that recognition into the world of philosophy. Fifteen experts in topics like mythology, Buddhism, feminism, logic, ethics, and the philosophy of science bring.