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1 online resource (xxiii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; 101 Philosophy Problems; Copyright Page; Contents; Forward!; Forward to the fourth edition and backward to the first!; How to use this book; Note on the philosophical pictures; 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 |
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13. The dodgy donor clinic14. 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. Poincaré's problem; 25. The mysterious triangle; 26. The fern; Pretty ugly aesthetic problems; 27. Fakes and forgeries; 28. Flash Bagman; 29. Problems buying stamps and potatoes; 30. More problems buying stamps and potatoes |
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31. A matter of standards32. 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 reallycares about anyway |
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47. Unicorns' horns48. 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; 58. The table; Famous thought experiments in science and philosophythat 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. Schrödinger's cat's problem |
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65. Deep thought speaks for itself66. 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 |
| Summary |
Does Farmer Field really know his prize cow, Daisy, is in the field? When is an unexpected exam not wholly unexpected? Are all bachelors (really) unmarried? Martin Cohen's 101 Philosophy Problems, Fourth Edition introduces philosophy in an entertaining but informative and stimulating way. Using philosophical puzzles, conundrums and paradoxes he skilfully unwraps some of the mysteries of the subject, from what we know - or think we know - to brainteasing thought experiments about ethics, science and the nature of the mind. For the Fourth Edition there are many new problems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
82-89 Problems raised by an annoying parishioner, on awet Sunday afternoon, at the vicar's tea party |
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Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed May 3, 2013) |
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Philosophy -- Introductions.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
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Philosophy
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Introductions
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135088781 |
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1135088780 |
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