Category: April Fool’s

  • An area philosopher is in critical yet stable condition in a local hospital today due to the acute effects of an existential crisis brought on by realizing the joint implications of utilitarianism and panpsychism. At a press conference, the victim's mother pleaded to the public, "Before he became a philosophy, he was so happy and…

  • In a groundbreaking article appearing in the Journal of Philosophical Progress, an area philosopher claims to have revolutionized philosophical methods, defending a new "conclusions-first philosophy" otherwise known as "conclusions fundamentalism." The philosopher explained, "All I have really done is take two influential methodological advances to their inevitable logical conclusion." When asked to elaborate, the philosopher explained, "For most…

  • In a stunning set of developments, a philosophical zombie definitively resolved three perennial philosophical problems over the course of a single undergraduate seminar. The class in question, taught by Professor Gödel-Schmidt, was scheduled to focus entirely on René Descartes' famous proof of his own existence–cogito, ergo sum. However, it quickly evolved into a wide ranging discussion culminating in the establishment…

  • In 1985, Starship famously shocked the world by purporting to prove that we built this city on rock-and-roll (for a summary of the proof, see Figure 1). Figure 1. "We Built This City"   Although initially met with skepticism, Starship's proof has surprisingly never been refuted, that is, until now. This morning, an area philosopher, working under the online…