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.

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]

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

• The Tao of Pooh
• The Te of Piglet

• John Tyerman Williams