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Index
Prologue
Part I: Ethics
1 • On the Run: All’s Fair with Bears?
2 • Just Helping Ourselves
3 • In the Beginning
4 • The Violinist: Should You Unplug?
5 • Walk On By…?
6 • The Innocent Murderer: A Nobody Dunit
7 • Girl, Cage, Chimp
8 • Lucky for Some
9 • Veils of Woe: Beats and Peeping Toms too
10 • Someone Else Will…
Part II: Politics and Society
11 • Thug: Past Caring?
12 • Mercy:Tempering or Tampering with Justice?
13 • Squabbling Sailors: If This Be Democracy…
14 • Vote! Vote! Vote?
15 • Man or Sheep?
16 • ‘I Shot the Sheriff’
17 • A Bit Rich
18 • ‘Women and Men Are Equal’ – Really?
19 • Exemptions: Doctors, Conscience and the Niqab
20 • ‘It’s All Relative… Isn’t It?’
21 • The Dangers of Health
Part III: Logic
22 • On Thinking Too Much or How not to Win a Princess’s Hand
23 • Irrational Preferences or How to Pump Money
24 • Chicken! Chicken! Chicken!
25 • ‘Don’t Read this Notice’
26 • The Unobtainable: When ‘Yes’ Means ‘No’
27 • Beauty Awake
28 • A Gazelle, a Sloth and a Chicken
29 • Jesters, Bertrand Russell and Paradox
30 • Infinity, Infinities and Hilbert’s Hotel
31 • How to Gain Whatever You Want
32 • The Card-Sharp Camel or ‘Your Number’s Up’
Part IV: Metaphysics
33 • Therapy for Tortoises
34 • Tensions in Tense
35 • Cocktails, Rivers and… Sir John Cutler’s Stockings
36 • A Goat with Gaps
37 • When One Makes Two: Dressing Up
38 • Pin Dropping
39 • In No Time at All
40 • Sand, Sun, Sea and…
41 • Do We Make the Stars?
Part V: Knowledge
42 • Pinter and Isabella: Tethering Them Down
43 • ‘Don’t Tell Him, Pike!’
44 • The Placebo: An Offer You Can Only Refuse
45 • Indoctrination: When Believing Goes Wrong
46 • Humpty Dumpty Advises Ms Turkey
47 • For All You Know…?
48 • Just Hanging Around
49 • Slothful Sloth Speaks: ‘What Will Be, Will Be’
50 • Creamy Philosophers: Who Knows Who Knows…
51 • Time for Zoological Investigations – from the Bedroom
52 • Hove and Late: A Gruesome Affair
Part VI: The self
53 • Resolutions, Good Intentions – and Cream Buns
54 • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
55 • Modesty and Shame: A Cat and Mouse Tale
56 • ‘Hi, I’m Sir Isaac Newton – Don’t Mention the Apples’
57 • ‘I Am a Robot’
58 • Uniquely Who?
59 • The Brain or Where Am I?
60 • Man with Pulley: Waving or Drowning?
61 • A Bale of Woe
62 • A Pill for Everything?
63 • The Frog, Scorpion and God – or ‘Thou Shalt Not’
Part VII: Religion
64 • ‘I Am the Greatest’ or ‘There Ain’t No Sanity Claus’
65 • The Greatest Miracle?
66 • God, Chocolate and Prayer or Take the Box?
67 • You’ll Never Get to Heaven…?
68 • Sympathy for the Devil
69 • On How a Land Without Crime Is Bad, so Bad
70 • Saints, Sinners and Suicide Bombers
71 • A Knowing God Knows How Much?
72 • Mysteries
Part VIII: Personal relationships
73 • What’s Wrong With Eating People? or even Who’s for Dinner?
74 • ‘Thank Goodness That’s Over’
75 • The Bottle Imp – For Sale
76 • Going for Cover: Arms Dealing to Casting Couches
77 • ‘My Beloved Is Mine’ or ‘The Trouble With Football Is the Other Team’
78 • Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
79 • A Whole Cloud of Philosophy – From Cogito Ergo Sum to a Drop of Grammar
80 • Wolves, Whistles and Women
81 • Addicted to Love
82 • ‘He Would Say that… Wouldn’t He?’
83 • What Sort of Children Should there Be?
Part IX: Aesthetics
84 • The Life Model: Beauty, Burglars and Beholders
85 • Paintings, Within and Without
86 • Fictional Feelings?
87 • Speaking of Whom?
88 • ‘But It’s Art, Dear Aunt Matilda’
89 • Eye Spy
90 • Music: beyond Language?
91 • Fragile Creatures that We Are…
Part X: Values
92 • Misfortune, Miss Fortuna – and Malicious Delight
93 • Should We Save the Jerboa?
94 • If this Be Judging…
95 • Life Without End: Too Much of a Good Thing?
96 • … And the Living is Easy
97 • Without End?
98 • Mindful of Barbarians – Within and Without
99 • Is this all there Is?
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgements
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