Ozma of Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum

Authors

Maughn B. Gregory, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow

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Description

L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz is a splendid tale of intellectual adventure full of thought experiments, including a tree that bears lunch boxes and napkins as fruit, beings like humans but with wheels at the ends of their four limbs, a mechanical man (called “Tiktok”) who can think, speak, and act but is not alive, and a princess with thirty alternative heads and accompanying temperaments. One could base a whole philosophy course on Ozma of Oz. One can also read it simply for fun – including, of course, philosophical fun.

Publication Date

1979

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

computers, machines, nature, thought experiments, L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz

Disciplines

Education | Philosophy

Comments

This review was originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 1(2): 3, 1979.

Recommended Citation

Gregory, Maughn B., "Ozma of Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum" (1979). Chapter Books. 7.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_chapterbooks/7