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Kaplan, Eric (Television producer)
Subjects
Santa Claus -- Miscellanea.
Santa Claus -- Humor.
Ontology.
Immaterialism (Philosophy)
Belief and doubt.
Reality.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Kaplan, Eric (Television producer)
Santa Claus -- Miscellanea.
Santa Claus -- Humor.
Ontology.
Immaterialism (Philosophy)
Belief and doubt.
Reality.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Does Santa exist? : a philosophical investigation / Eric Kaplan.
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Kaplan, Eric (Television producer)
Dutton, [2014]
Call #:
111
K17d
Subjects
Santa Claus -- Miscellanea.
Santa Claus -- Humor.
Ontology.
Immaterialism (Philosophy)
Belief and doubt.
Reality.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780525954392 (hc.)
0525954392 (hc.)
Description:
x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.
Contents:
Logic -- Mysticism -- Comedy -- Life -- Me and you.
Summary:
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa -- from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang Theory television sitcom. Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of comedy writer Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful, laugh-out-loud discussion of the way some things exist but may not really be there. Just like Santa and his reindeer. Even after we outgrow the jolly fellow, the essential paradox persists: There are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal, and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts to resolve such paradoxes, surveying Buddhism, Taoism, early Christianity, Theosophy, and even the philosophers at UC Berkeley under whom he studied. Finally, he alights on -- surprise -- comedy as the ultimate resolution of the fundamental paradoxes of life, using examples from The Big Bang Theory, Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, and other pop-culture sources. Kaplan delves into how our physical brains work and to his personal confrontations with life's biggest questions: If we're all going to die, what's the point of anything? What is a perfect moment? What can you say about God? Or Santa? Eric Kaplan is a co-executive producer of (and writer for) the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Previously he wrote for The Late Show with David Letterman, Futurama, and Flight of the Concords. Kaplan graduated from Harvard and is now studying at UC Berkeley.
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