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Theatre

Jumpers by Tom Stoppard

Warren Allen Smith took at trip to Times Square to see a musical whodunnit about philosophical acrobats debating the existence of God. What else could it be but Jumpers by the profound and playful Tom Stoppard.

Jumpers, Tom Stoppard's 1972 comedy, opened on 25 April 2004 at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in Times Square. Inasmuch as I am but a neophyte in philosophy, I played it safe by taking a live philosopher along with me. At the very start, Dr Timothy Madigan and I began laughing at different parts of the dialogue. Not surprising, for I was the only one laughing when he tried to explain to me the view of epistemologist William K. Clifford, about whom he has written extensively, that what is ontogenetically innate may be phylogenetically learned.

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