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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Thales’s Well The world in a drop of water
2 Protagoras and the Pigs Is man the measure of all things?
3 Zeno and the Tortoise The use of reductio ad absurd urn
4 The Socratic Inquisition Uncovering truth by interrogation
5 Plato’s Cave The use of analogy and allegory
6 Aristotle’s Goals The purposes of life
7 Lucretius’s Spear The realm of the hypothetical
8 Ockham’s Razor The virtues of simplicity
9 Machiavellfs Prince Appealing to our worse nature
10 Bacon’s Chickens Predicting the future
11 Descartes’ Demon The limits of doubt
12 Hume’s Fork How to skewer nonsense
13 Reid’s Common Sense The philosophy of the obvious
14 Rousseau’s Contract Learning from fiction and fantasy
15 Kant’s Spectacles Putting man at the centre of the universe
16 Bentham’s Calculus Mathematics as a guide to morals
17 Hegel’s Dialectic Finding truth in conflict
18 Nietzsche’s Hammer Smashing our idols
19 The Young Wittgenstein’s Mirror What can be shown, but not said
20 The Older Wittgenstein’s Games Escaping from the fly-bottle
21 Popper’s Dolls How to be one’s own best enemy
22 Ryle’s University When things are more than the sum of their parts
23 Turing’s Machine Computing the unthinkable
24 Dawkins’s Meme How ideas think of us
25 Derrida and Deconstruction Taking ideas apart
Further Reading
Index
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