Pooh and the Philosophers

{{Short description|1995 book by John Tyerman Williams}}

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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.{{cite book|author=Mark Kingwell|title=Marginalia: A Cultural Reader|page=[https://archive.org/details/marginaliacultur0000king/page/207 207]|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-028699-1|url=https://archive.org/details/marginaliacultur0000king/page/207}} 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.