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Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Someone else will ...
2. Pinter and Isabella: tethering them down
3. The violinist: should you unplug?
4. Resolutions, good intentions – and cream buns
5. ‘But it’s art, dear Aunt Matilda’
6. Modesty and shame: a cat and mouse tale
7. A Bottle Imp – for sale
8. Going for cover – from arms dealing to casting couches
9. Squabbling sailors: if this be democracy ...
10. Misfortune, Miss Fortuna – and malicious delight
11. A goat with gaps
12. What sort of children should there be?
13. The card-sharp camel or ‘Your number’s up’
14. Indoctrination: when believing goes wrong
15. Jesters, Bertrand Russell and paradox
16. Walk on by ... ?
17. Let the music play
18. Time for zoological investigations – from the bedroom
19. Addicted to love
20. Mercy: tempering and tampering with justice
21. Speaking of whom?
22. The frog, the scorpion and ‘thou shalt not’
23. Creamy philosophers: who knows who knows ...
24. Exemptions: doctors, conscience and the niqab
25. Pin dropping
26. Preferences: avoiding the money pump
27. A gazelle, a sloth and a chicken
28. On how good punishment is bad, so bad
29. A knowing god knows how much?
30. A whole cloud of philosophy – from cogito ergo sum to a drop of grammar
31. Infinity, infinities and Hilbert’s Hotel
32. Life without end: too much of a good thing?
33. Mindful of Barbarians – within and without
Appendix 1 Further reading
Appendix 2 Notes, sources and references
Appendix 3 Paradoxes and puzzles: a quick finder
General index
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