101 Philosophy Problems by Cohen, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Forward! Forward to the fourth edition and backward to the first! How to use this book Note on the philosophical pictures Ten logical loops and paradoxical problems to get started with

1. The cow in the field 2. The raven 3. Descartes’ big problem 4. The hanging judge 5. The hairdresser of Hindu Kush 6. The tuck-shop dilemma 7. Protagoras’ problem 8. The unexpected exam 9. Sorites 10. A problem arranging ship battles

Eight tricky ethical dilemmas

11. Flight 999 to Shangri-La 12. The plank of Carneades 13. The dodgy donor clinic 14. The famous footbridge dilemma 15. A not-very classical musical dilemma 16. Whose baby? 17. Potentially a problem 18. Kidnapped by doctors! Episode I 19. Kidnapped by doctors! Episode II 20. The turtle

Half a dozen pesky numbers problems

21. The amazing run of luck 22. The infinite hotel 23. Zeno’s paradox of place 24. Poincaré’s problem 25. The mysterious triangle 26. The fern

Pretty ugly aesthetic problems

27. Fakes and forgeries 28. Flash Bagman 29. Problems buying stamps and potatoes 30. More problems buying stamps and potatoes 31. A matter of standards 32. The exploitative pictures

Heavy lifting personal problems

33. Swampy things 34. The X-perience Machine 35. The power of partiality 36. Against impartiality 37. The superior power of self-interest 38. The mind’s eye 39. The half-a-brain problem 40. Only John King 41. The materialisation of Katie

Paradoxical picture puzzles

42. The ‘blobs’ and ‘the colour disk illusion’ 43. The cube and the triangle 44. Figure/ground reversal 45. The false leg 46. Band with a twist to it

Twelve traditional philosophy problems no one really cares about anyway

47. Unicorns’ horns 48. The King of France’s pate 49. Snow’s colour 50. Unmarried bachelors 51. The author of Waverley 52. Martian water 53. The millennium problem 54. Green and red 55. G.E. Moore’s problem 56. Kant’s problem 57. More Kant 58. The table

59. Potty (thought) experiments 60. What happens after the sun goes out? 61. Galileo’s (gravitational) balls 62. Maxwell’s moving magnets 63. Einstein changes the train times 64. Schrödinger’s cat’s problem 65. Deep thought speaks for itself 66. Deeper thought

Some rather dodgy ethical problems

67. The dog and the professor I 68. The dog and the professor II 69. A relative problem 70. New Diktatia I 71. New Diktatia II 72. New Diktatia III 73. The dissonance of the $1 volunteers 74. The Devil’s chemists

More paradoxical pictures

75. Daytime – or night-time? 76. But will the waterfall? 77. The architect’s secret 78. Smaller and smaller 79. The three hares illusion

Fairly fundamental religious problems

Another dollop of maths to keep you perky

90. The battle for Fractal Farm 91. Lorenz’s waterywheel 92. Statistics in the firing line 93. Problems at the West Midlands grommet factory

Closing down problems

94. A fairly terminal problem for dull philosophers 95. Pain is good 96. Greed is good 97. Sleeping problems 98. The sleeping man 99. Simple universe 100. The problem of how to get to 101 (unsolved) 101. The problem of existence

Discussions Glossary Reading guide Acknowledgements Index