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	1. Katherine's Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness
>	2. Tim's Sexy Girl-Goddess and the Tale of the British Raisin
	3. Wendy's Risky Role-Play and the Gory Plot of the Okefenokee Man-Monster

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2. Tim’s Sexy Girl-Goddess and the
Tale of the British Raisin

A. Scenes

SCENE I. Fruitarian Foreplay

SCENE II. Sex and Metaphysics?

SCENE III. Venus the SuperSexy Girl-Goddess

SCENE IV. A Timean Interlude

SCENE V. Souls and Goals

SCENE VI. A Most Preposterous Proposal

SCENE VII. Ockham’s Raisin

SCENE VIII. West Coast Story

SCENE IX. Mindy Always Barks

SCENE X. The Secret Watergate Tape Recordings Anniversary

SCENE XI. How to Turn Mandy On and Off

SCENE XII. Why Did Rachel Break Up?

SCENE XIII. The Raisin Tale Revisited

SCENE XIV. Scientists Do Know What They Need

SCENE XV. The Postman Always Turns Twice

SCENE XVI. A Moistur-
izing Conclusion

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B. Description

CATEGORY: Philosophy play; historical fiction; comedy; social criticism.

STORYLINE: Tim, a physics professor with a certain taste for young female university students, recently got a new appointment at a London university. But, as it turns out, he is still unsatisfied. Why? Is it because Rachael unexpectedly left him under strange circumstances? Or does it have to do with his sudden departure from another university? Or is it hisresearch? When Tim meets Christianus for a brown-bag discussion on philosophy and science, new facts and perspectives are revealed.

TOPICS: In the course of the play, Tim and Christianus discuss different metaphysical, epistemological, and ontological ideas. Many of these are either related to issues in the philosophy of science (explanation, methodology, scientific investigation, etc.), or to issues in human psychology and the philosophy of mind (the self vs. the mind, dualism, ‘Who am I?’, etc.). In one scene, for example, Tim tries to invoke ‘Ockham’s Razor’ (or ‘Occam’s Razor’) to quickly dismiss some of Christianus’s metaphysical ideas (see Scene VII: Ockham’s Raisin; Scene XIII: The Raisin Tale Revisited); in another scene, Christianus introduces his ‘Postman’ scenario, and the idea that successful (‘scientific’) prediction or forecasting is not necessarily a sure sign of true understanding (see Scene XV: The Postman Always Turns Twice).

NOTES: This work features elaborate footnotes and comments (including full bibliographical references) by the author, to enhance the reader's experience of the play and its philosophizing characters.

C. Versions of This Play (Print Edition)

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PRINT VERSION: The play Tim’s Sexy Girl-Goddess and the Tale of the British Raisin is published in Philosophical Plays, vol. 1, no. 2 (December 2008).

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ONLINE VERSIONS: The play Tim’s Sexy Girl-Goddess and the Tale of the British Raisin is available in the following online versions:

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2. Tim’s Sexy Girl-Goddess and the Tale of the British Raisin

A. Scenes

B. Description

C. Versions of This Play (Print Edition)

D. Versions of This Play (Online Edition)

2. Tim’s Sexy Girl-Goddess and the
Tale of the British Raisin