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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE - “WAKE UP, ALICE DEAR”
Chapter 1 - UNRULY ALICE: A FEMINIST VIEW OF SOME ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Nice Girls Don’t Make History
Motherhood Is Not a Requirement
What Would Alice Do?
NOTES
Chapter 2 - JAM YESTERDAY, JAM TOMORROW, BUT NEVER JAM TODAY: ON ...
Never Jam Today?
The Organic Unity of “Wannabe”
More Millgram, Less Moore
I’ ll Write This Part Later . . .
So What Do We Do, Then?
“Some People Have No More Sense Than a Baby!”
Chapter 3 - NUCLEAR STRATEGISTS IN WONDERLAND
Nuclear Etiquette
The Mad Tea Party
The Queen of Hearts as Nuclear Strategist
Grand Masters of the Universe
Chapter 4 - “YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A PACK OF CARDS!”: ALICE DOESN’ T HAVE A SOCIAL CONTRACT
The Young Dodgson’s Classical Education
A Paradoxical Martyr for Free Speech
Why the Queen of Hearts Must Yell
Is There a Better Approach? The Queen Scares Me!
A Closer Look at Alice’s Trial
PART TWO - “THAT’S LOGIC”
Chapter 5 - “SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST”
“Everything Is So Out-of-the-Way Down Here”
“Very Few Things Indeed Were Really Impossible”
“One Can’t Believe Impossible Things”
“There’s a Nice Knock-Down Argument for You!”
“Consider Your Verdict!”
Chapter 6 - REASONING DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE: LOGICAL LESSONS IN WONDERLAND
A Confusion about Collisions
The Land of Logic
Humpty Dumpty and the New Atheists
Why Nobody Ain’t a Nobody
Green Eggs and Hammers
The Lasting Legacy of Logic
Chapter 7 - THREE WAYS OF GETTING IT WRONG: INDUCTION IN WONDERLAND
How to Avoid Poison and Red-Hot Pokers
Why Predicting the Future Is a Problem
Whose Dream Is This, Anyway?
There’s No Meaning in It, After All
Wonderland and the Real World
Chapter 8 - IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A LANGUAGE?
“I Speaks English, Doesn’t I?”
“That’s Not a Regular Rule: You Invented It Just Now”
“What’s the Use of a Book without Pictures or Conversation?”
“There’s a Nice Knock-Down Argument for You”
“Language Is Worth a Thousand Pounds a Word”
PART THREE - “WE’RE ALL MAD HERE”
Chapter 9 - ALICE, PERCEPTION, ANDREALITY: JELL-O MISTAKEN FOR STONES
“The Confused Clamor of the Busy Farm-Yard”
“So She Sat On, with Closed Eyes, and Half Believed Herself in Wonderland”
“All Would Change to Dull Reality”
“So She Was Considering, in Her Own Mind . . . ”
Perceptions Are Fine, but Dull Reality Is Still Better
Chapter 10 - HOW DEEP DOES THE RABBIT-HOLE GO?: DRUGS AND DREAMS, PERCEPTION ...
But Is It a Drug Story?
Life Is But a Dream?
The Land of the Real?
The Real Is Fake and the Fake Is Real
Chapter 11 - PERSPECTIVISM AND TRAGEDY: A NIETZSCHEAN INTERPRETATION OF ...
“Important-Unimportant-Unimportant-Important”
Rabbit-Holes and Abysses
“I’ m Not Myself, You See”
“Be What You Would Seem to Be”
“No Wise Fish Would Go Anywhere without a Porpoise”
Dull Reality: The Tragic View of Life
Chapter 12 - WISHING IT WERE SOME OTHER TIME: THE TEMPORAL PASSAGE OF ALICE
Augustine: Always Changing, Always Now
Kant: It’s All in Your Head
Bergson I: Running to Stay Still
Bergson II: Teatime
Deleuze: Jam Today
PART FOUR - “WHO IN THE WORLD AM I?”
Chapter 13 - SERIOUS NONSENSE
Nonsense in Ancient Greek Philosophy
The Nonsense of Lewis Carroll
Insanity in the Summer and Winter
Curiosity’s Double Edge
A Curious Sanity and a Sane Curiosity?
An Objection
A Nonsense Too Far?
Chapter 14 - “MEMORY AND MUCHNESS”: ALICE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEMORY
“Memory and Muchness”-Our Memory, Our Self
Remembering to Forget
Memory, Dreams, and Imagination: “Curiouser and Curiouser!”
From Backwards -Working Memory, or Working Backwards from Memory?
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