Thomas Cathcart is the author or coauthor of six books, including the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates, and The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?. He lives in upstate New York.
Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informati...[SEE MORE]