Songs About Philosophers (and a few by philosophers)

Last night I was singing along to my music and realized, it's not often you get to belt out "philosopher" in a song (and even less often you get to sing "logician"). So I put out a call to twitter to see if they could help me create a playlist of #SongsAboutPhilosophers, either about philosophers (generically) or philosophers (specifically). I got some fantastic responses!

• Monty Python, Bruce's Philosophers Song (and a live version)
• Nightwish, Sahara
• Bob Dylan, I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (there's also a version by Eric Clapton.)
• Horrible Histories, The Greek Thinkers
• J. Boor, The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song
• 21st Century Monads, Willard Van Orman Quine (and other things by them)
• L. A. Salami, Aristotle Ponders the Sound
• Pigor and Eichhorn, Heidegger
• Belle and Sebastian, Marx and Engels
• Artichoke, Willard Van Ormond Quine
• Endless Art, (not sure of the title, but it features de Beauvoir)

I also got recommendations of things by philosophers, including:

• Argentinian Society of Philosophical Analysis, Tango
• Immanual Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
• LSE's Critique of Pure Reason band
• The Illuminator

I also asked for songs about logicians; the best I can get is songs about logic:

• Cantica Martin, Barbara Celarent
• Roger Hodgson/Supertramp, The Logical Song

As well as the Summer of Logic playlist.

And let's not forget all the songs that could be written in other possible worlds:

Philosophy playlist pic.twitter.com/Zg7ab8abBD

— Helen Ingram (@drhingram) August 21, 2016