How many philosophers?
How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: 66.
Eleven plantonic philosophers to ponder whether it is possible to actually
do anything;
ten semanticists to debate the various possible meanings of each phrase, word,
and syllable in the question;
nine stoics to write about it from radically different viewpoints;
eight marxist feminists to respond vehemently with opposing points of view;
seven Cartesian dualists to question the nature of what it is to be an essential
lightbulb, at least two of them attrempting a pun along the lines of 'cogito
ergo luminos' or something;
six existentailists who point out that some poor git is going to have to stand
on the bloddy chair at some point.
four socratics who disagree with that statement because they disagree on principal
with anything anyone else has suggested;
three zen philosophers who believe it's more important to work it out without
showing any more emotions than necessary to get it done;
two Kantians who maintain that numbers are more important than facts;
and one pragmatist to ignore the bureaucratic piles of paperwork and replace
the bad bulb with a good one.
Whilst all this is going on, all the philosophers are secretly keeping count in their heads just to smugly point out that that only adds up to 61 philosophers, not 66.