Marion's Reviews > Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids

3.5 stars. It’s good for what it is, but it wasn’t what I expected. I wanted goofy, ridiculous theories from his kids and Hershovitz using philosophical thinking to make sense of it. Instead, it’s basically just an ordinary Intro to Philosophy class using his kids as examples. Everything his kids come up with is coincidentally exactly what some famous philosopher once said or thought. If you’d like a basic explanation of what philosophy is and how it relates to various fields of thought, you’ll enjoy it. Hershovitz is a good writer and explains it all very clearly. But it didn’t change my initial view that philosophers throughout history have mostly been a bunch of mansplaining bros who would rather play devil’s advocate than actually use common sense.