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101 philosophy problems
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From the Book - Fourth edition.
Machine generated contents note: 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.Poincare's problem 25.The mysterious triangle 26.The fern Pretty ugly aesthetic problems 27.Fakes and forgeries 28.Flash Bagman
Contents note continued: 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
Contents note continued: 58.The table Famous thought experiments in science and philosophy that changed the way we see the world ... a bit 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.Schrodinger'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 80.The evangelist 81.The hate preacher
Contents note continued: 82-89.Problems raised by an annoying parishioner, on a wet Sunday afternoon, at the vicar's tea party
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
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9780203069851
9780415261289
9780415635745
9780415261296
9780415261289
9780415635745
9780415261296
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