A cabinet of philosophical curiosities : a collection of puzzles, oddities, riddles, and dilemmas

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Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Conform to Confound; Razing Hopes; Hidden Messages in Songs; A Blessed Book Curse; Listen for a Counterexample; Schopenhauer's Intelligence Test; A Knucklehead on My Premises; The Tversky Intelligence Test; A Matter of Life and Death; The Identity of Indiscernibles; Indiscernible Pills; Telling a Clover from a Plover; The Emotional Range of Logicians; A Pebble from the Baths of Caracalla; Assassination Proof; How to Succeed Your Successor; Not All Logicians Are Saints; Lewis Carroll's Peek at Meno's Slave Boy. The Elderly ScientistMore Proof!; Emily Dickinson's Hummingbird; Plato's Packing Problem; Telepathy for the Absent-Minded; Order of Absence versus Absence of Order; Neglect of the Absent; Child Proof; Wittgenstein's Parallelograms; Knowing the Area of a Parallelogram; Freud versus the Dreaming Logicians; Do Butterflies Dream?; Descartes's Disappearance; The Most Fairly Distributed Good; Fairness Framed; Towards a Fairer Share of Dishwashing; What the Dishwasher Missed; Developmental Self-Defeat; Random Quiz; Enforcing Gresham's Law; Gresham's Law of Numbers; Laziest Reductio. Imaginary Travel CompanionsThe Twin Cities Race; Fugu for Two; Deducing Names; Richard Feynman is Inconsistent; Galbraith's Cow; Logical Names for Babies; Being Relatively Ill-Named; Roman Resemblance Humour; The Prison-House of Language; Bilingual Humour; The Pierre Puzzle and Implicit Racism; Capital Pronunciation; Logically Perfect Language; Eyebrow Punctuation; Kierkegaard's 1 AU Dash; Putting Out Your Second Eye; A Pyramid Schema; The Eighteenth Camel; The Negation Test for Nonsense; Shifty O's; A Plenum of Palindromes for Lewis Carroll; Pining for the Impossible; Anything Is Possible? Half Full or Half Empty?The Scientific Drinker; Is Akrasia Crazy?; A Cure for Incontinence!; Lewis Carroll's Pig Puzzles; A Round Trip from Small to Large; Partway Down the Slippery Slope; Contrapositive Thinking; Queer Quantities; New Zealand's Arthur Prior; Most Remote Capital City; The Logic of 'Australia'; Predicting Your Predictor; The Freedom of a Coin Toss; Fair Tosses from an Unfair Coin; Predicting Random Choices; Wittgenstein on Ice; The Unbearable Lightness of Logical Conclusions; Impossible Crimes; Double Belief; The Evil of Doing the Impossible; Identity Theft; Infinite Chess. Infinite Two-Minute DebateIndian Debate Tournament; Winning by Losing; Minimising Selfishness; Lawrence of Arabia Collars a Leopard; A Bridge without Pillars; Advice from Shih Teng; Thales' Shady Measurement of Pyramids; The Cowpox Transmission Problem; Kant's Gloves; An Antipodal Algorithm; The Invisibility of Function Words; Necessary Waste; The Art of the Counterexample; The Philosophy of Scale Effects; Humble Exercise; Philosophy for the Eye; Synthetic A Priori Lies; Passive A Priori Deception; Crete Revisited; Less Lucky the Second Time?; Professor Ignorance; Nothing Is Written in Stone